Positive news for the labor market: 20.000 more jobs created only in December.

Public spending for health is down by almost 50% in 2012 since the highest level reached in 2009.

A week of mass mobilizations against staff mobility and availability in the public sector began with tension, as school guards besieging the government reform ministry clashed with riot police. Police used tear gas to drive away the protesters, resulting in two people being taken to hospital with respiratory complications.