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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-10-19
CONTENTS
[01] Tsakalotos: No evidence IMF wants Greece to accept fourth bailout
for debt relief
[02] Council of State to convene on TV licencing law on October 24 and 26
[01] Tsakalotos: No evidence IMF wants Greece to accept fourth bailout
for debt relief
It does not arise from any discussion with the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) that debt relief would be granted to Greece only if the
country accepted a fourth bailout, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos
said on Wednesday during his speech at the parliament's economic
committee on the 2017 draft budget.
"It is not obvious that the IMF wants another program in addition to
the existing," he said, adding he disagrees with PASOK's former finance
minister Nikos Christodoulakis on this issue.
"The government does not have a success story to promote. Our view is
we can restore development in a sovereign way, by incorporating social
forces which the dominant elite has abandoned," he added.
[02] Council of State to convene on TV licencing law on October 24 and 26
The Council of State (CoS) plenum will meet on October 24 and 26
to discuss and decide on the constitutionality and legality of
the government's TV licensing law in two closed-door sessions,
the president of the court Nikolaos Sakellariou said on Wednesday,
accïrding to sources.
The sessions have been scheduled for 17:00. Next Monday, judges will
hear from the case rapporteur, Giorgos Papageorgiou, who will complete
his recommendation which started on Tuesday night but was interrupted.
Papageorgiou argued in favour of the law which sidestepped the
National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) in the granting of
TV licenses. Other judges will then take their turn and develop their
arguments on its constitutionality.
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