The certainty that at the beginning of next week the negotiation issue with Greece ‘s partners will close was expressed by Greek Economy Minister George Stathakis on Thursday speaking to private TV ANT1.
Stathakis said that the so-called reforms package, which will be formed exclusively from the Greek side and will be approved by our partners, will be submitted and on the other hand the approval will ‘unlock’ the financing in order for the liquidity problem that is facing the Greek economy to be solved.
The minister rejected that the negotiation is the continuation of the memorandum and supported that from now on the basis of whatever discussion is the February 20 Eurogroup agreement. Based on this agreement “the evaluation will be completed at the end of the four-month period and afterwards we will close a new agreement with our partners.” He clarified that the final plan to tackle the bad loans’ ‘thorn’ needs at least 5-6 months to be completed.
He noted that the government is considering the establishment of a public entity to which all the bad loans of the families that are at the poverty line will be transferred as well as of those families that saw their income decrease dramatically because of the crisis.
Stathakis referred to the VAT issue claiming that there is a margin for small-scale changes that will make the VAT institution more progressive, friendly and just adding that these improvements will not refer to VAT on the islands.
(source: ana-mpa)
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