The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis advises this Sunday with the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, on the reform plans of his threatened with bankruptcy country. The ministry said in Athens, at the meeting in Washington if it were an “informal discussion”. The international donors have frozen funding for the heavily indebted Greece. You are asking the leftist government to agree on a reform package.
The next Thursday as critical date
This week is approaching the debt dispute the hour of truth, as a critical date is Thursday. Then Greece must pay back the IMF loan of a mature around 450 million euros. If you are switching Conference of Secretaries of the Ministries of Finance of 19 euro states there was no certainty on Wednesday whether Athens can lift the payment. According to expert information, the Greek government has already warned the euro-partner against payment default on that day. The Athenian Treasury denied, however, to have made such a statement. The deputy head of department Dimitris Mardas added that his country would pay the money on time to the IMF.
Athens Inquiry into the debt crisis
On Saturday, a committee of the Greek Parliament on the debt crisis of the state has started its work. The committee wants to find, especially those responsible for the crisis. President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said in a ceremony at the beginning of the committee’s work, Greece has made international commitments as a member of the euro zone. But the country also have the right to national sovereignty.
The opposition had been against the establishment of the Committee. The investigations are the tenure of the socialist government Giorgos Papandreou (2009 to 2011), the non-party interim government Lucas Papademos (2011 to 2012) and the tenure of the coalition government of Conservatives and Socialists (June 2012-January 2015) under the then Premier Antonis Samaras concern.
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