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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-05-01
CONTENTS
[01] New round of talks between government, institutions scheduled for
after 15:00
[01] New round of talks between government, institutions scheduled for
after 15:00
Greek government negotiators and the heads of the institutions' missions
in Athens are to begin a new round of talks for the completion of the
2nd review of Greece's programme after 15:00 on Monday, instead of
13:00 as originally scheduled. The delay was decided in order to write
up the agreement texts.
In a statement at 2:00 after midnight on the morning of the May 1st
Labour Day holiday, a senior Greek government official said that the
talks had covered "all the dossiers and there isn't anything in either
the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or the Memorandum of Economic
and Financial Policies (MEFP) that we have not discussed. Today we will
discuss the texts on which we have differences."
The MoU is the text of the agreements drawn up with European institutions
and the MEFP is the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The same official said that there were no outstanding issues in about
four or five areas of the talks , such as education, health and energy,
four dossiers with "quite significant issues" and another four to five
where issues of lesser importance was still outstanding. "In each major
sector, one issue is important," the official said.
There has been no negotiation yet on primary surpluses after 2018,
since this is linked to the measures for easing Greece's debt that will
be discussed at the Eurogroup of May 22.
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