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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-03-15
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[01] PM to brief parliament on EU summit

[01] PM to brief parliament on EU summit
Prime minister George Papandreou will brief parliament on Friday on the
results of last week's informal eurogroup and extraordinary EU summits
in Brussels, which decided to extend the repayment period for Greece's
110 billion euro EU/IMF support loan and a reduction of the interest
rate.
Papandreou on Tuesday submitted to parliament president Filippos
Petsalnikos a relevant request, by virtue of Article 142 A of the Rules
of Parliament, which provides that «the prime minister or government
may seek to make announcements or statements to the House at any given
time on a serious public matter, for prompt and responsible briefing of
the parliament", outside the procedures of an off-the-agenda debate.
The procedure set out in the Rules of Parliament provides for an
announcement or statement of the government, by the prime minister,
which cannot exceed 10 minutes, and the leaders of the parliamentary
groups may state their views for a duration of not more than five
minutes each. The prime minister may reply to the leaders, and the
reply cannot exceed five minutes. The opposition leaders have the right
to a counter-reply not exceeding three minutes each, while the prime
minister closes the discussion in a final statement that does not
exceed five minutes.
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