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The government is reducing spending on the social protection of the weaker social groups, despite the assurances of Euclid Tsakalotos that taxes go to finance the government's social policy, while increasing the contributions paid by employers and professionals. This will result in the much-touted, by the government, budget surplus for 2018.

At of 415 civil servants that left their service in the midst of checks of persons remitting high sums (over 1100,000 euros) abroad was sent to general secretary for public revenue by government reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was also informed by the special secretary for special inquiries for the civil service that in total 5,260 civil servants had remitted around 1.45 billion euros abroad.