Greece's Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated yesterday that the public sector had over the last four years, eliminated 200,000 employees, which resulted in an 8 billion euro reduced civil servants payroll.

The restructuring of the public sector and the responsibilitιes of the Greek state to fire or suspend civil servants in 2014 will be tabled in the new cycle of negotiations with the troika.

A check on about 2,000 civil servants that have sent more than 100,000 euros abroad has been requested by government reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from Civil Service Auditors.