With the troika scheduled to return to Athens in October, the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos have arranged to meet on Thursday morning to tackle unresolved issues, including a set of troika-mandated prior actions.
To that end the government will submit a draft bill for a series of open issues, such as merging supplementary pension funds, abolishing third-party taxes and reducing red tape. Based on recent comments by the Minister of Environment Yannis Maniatis it seems that there not be any provisions for the coast line.
Earlier in the week, PASOK representatives met with the Minister of Finances Gikas Hardouvelis with a series of tax proposals. Amongst others, PASOK has requested a reduction of the ineffective, as it has turned out, special consumption tax on heating oil, reducing or even erasing fines worth 25 billion euros and increasing the number of installments for outstanding debts towards the State to 100.
