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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-03-07
CONTENTS
[01] Debt relief talk to start in April, institutions to return to Athens
on Tuesday
[02] ND leader: Greece should take lessons from Cyprus on implementing
bailout
[01] Debt relief talk to start in April, institutions to return to Athens
on Tuesday
BRUSSELS (ANA-MPA/C. Vasilaki) - The heads of the institutions will
return to Athens on Tuesday, sources with knowledge of the talks taking
place at Monday's Eurogroup said.
The same sources said that Eurozone finance ministers were informed by
Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem that talks on debt relief for
Greece will start on April.
[02] ND leader: Greece should take lessons from Cyprus on implementing
bailout
Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday that Greece
should take lessons from Cyprus on how to correctly implement the
measures of its bailout program, following a meeting with the leader
of the Democratic Rally party, Averof Neofytou, in Nicosia.
"It's a particularly important day for Cyprus, as today's Eurogroup
will confirm the country's exit from the memorandum after three years
of systematic effort," Mitsotakis said in joint statements to the press.
He continued to say that, unlike Cyprus, Greece "is still in the grip of
a third program, from which it is not expected to come out soon", adding
that it is therefore "extremely important to take lessons from Cyprus
and see what our Cypriot brothers did correctly and most importantly,
how they implemented consistently a program by telling the truth to
people, how they created a bipartisan consensus on necessary reforms
and how they achieved fiscal consolidation without increasing taxes."
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