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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-08-10
CONTENTS
[01] PM Tsipras: 'We can't remain indifferent over the tax exceptions
applied for us'
[02] German finance ministry denies requesting solution to refugee crisis
as prerequisite for Greek deal
[01] PM Tsipras: 'We can't remain indifferent over the tax exceptions
applied for us'
ANA - MPA -- A meeting called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the
taxation of MPs salaries as well as the reduction of the ministers,
Public Utilities and Organisation chiefs and the presidents of
Independent Administration authorities' allowances was concluded at
that Maximos mansion.
"When the abolition of the farmers' allowances is on the negotiations
table we can't remain indifferent over the tax exceptions applied for
us..." said Tsipras according to government sources. The prime minister
also noted that the draft law that abolishes the MPs tax free must be
tabled immediately in parliament underlining that "it is not only a
political initiative with economic results but also with a symbolic
context".
Alternate Administration Reform Minister Christoforos Vernardakis,
Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas and the Cabinet secretary
Spyros Sagias participated in the meeting.
[02] German finance ministry denies requesting solution to refugee crisis
as prerequisite for Greek deal
BERLIN (ANA-MPA/F. Karaviti) – Germany's finance ministry rejected
on Sunday a report in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung which
alleged Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Steffen had asked for Greece
to settle the refugee problem first, before any aid program is agreed,
during a teleconference on Friday night.
"The ministry denies it," the ministry said, according to the German
news agency (dpa), adding that Steffen reminded the teleconference
that Greece – according to the July 12 summit agreement - needed to
modernize its public administration and that this needs to be integrated
in the Memorandum of Understanding.
It goes without saying that this modernization, the ministry told dpa,
includes all the sectors of the Greek public administration.
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