Do not underestimate Georgiadis contacts to Germany: Health Minister Georgiadis was in close cooperation with “German Society for Technical Cooperation“(GIZ) that had secured a contract through EU Task Force and Head Horst Reichenbach (also a German) to provide Greeks with “technical know-how” on austerity cuts in Health Care, expenditure saving and exorbitant hikes in insurers’ self-participation for prescription medicine. The cost of the close cooperation was reportedly 14.5 million euro – and thus in times of deep recession.