GREECE - The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into a proposal by Greece to pay about e360m to the early retirement plan of the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation (OTE), saying this payment was excessive.
The Greek state proposed the payment to relieve OTE of the alleged extra costs it faced arising from the higher labour costs of its quasi-civil servant status employees. The state’s offer follow...
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