The Minister of Finances Giannis Stournaras expressed his optimism that “things are obviously better” and predicted that the country will recover by the end of the year or early 2014.
The article in “Ta Nea” also indicates that Mr. Stournaras is troubled by the increasing pressure to relax the efforts in the fiscal reforms: “What do they want? To relinquish the perspective of achieving a primary surplus this years that will allow us to negotiate a debt haircut in 2014?”
According to the newspaper article, the greatest pressure regard exemption of specific categories of public sector employees from the government’s unified payroll.
