Gov’t may ask troika for more time for second round of civil servant scheme

As workers’ unions heralded industrial action to protest an overhaul of the civil service pledged by the government to the country’s troika of international lenders, Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is overseeing the cutbacks, suggested Tuesday that Athens might ask the troika for an extension to a December 31 deadline for inducting a second round of 12,500 civil servants into a mobility scheme.