Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-27
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[01] Government's economic team briefs Tsipras on review talks
[01] Government's economic team briefs Tsipras on review talks
The government's economic team briefed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
on Thursday evening the ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors
on the second program review
Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Alternate Finance Minister George
Chouliarakis and Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou presented the outcome
of today's meetings with the representatives of the institutions and
the Greek side's observations concerning the open issues.
Earlier, a government official said the seven or eight major open issues
in the talks between the Greek government and the institutions have been
resolved and "only sundry issues remain."
Even though the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was insisting on many
points that were not to the government's liking, the source added, "I
do not have the impression that the Fund has come to the negotiations in
order to delay and I do not think these issues can lead to not concluding
the agreement."
During a 1.5-hour meeting on Thursday, the two sides discussed issues
relating to privatisations, fiscal policy and labour law.
According to the government official, a discussion on the four draft
documents (the MoU with the European institutions, the Memorandum of
Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP) with the IMF and two corresponding
technical agreements) is to be held on Friday afternoon. Both the Greek
side and the institutions have given instructions that these documents
should first be 'cleared' at a staff level so only the basic issues are
discussed at a senior level, so that there can be topic discussions on
the four documents. The aim is to have completed the entire process by
next Sunday, the official said.
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