Brussels, 05/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - In sixteen countries of Europe, teachers have seen their pay cut or frozen. The pay cuts have been as high as 20% in Ireland, Greece and Portugal, three countries in receipt of financial aid from the troika of lenders (the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) and which the European Commission says in a report published on Friday 5 October are due to the economic slowdown.
From mid-2010, the economic crisis has...