The 1-billion-euro loan installment that Greece was to collect in June is likely to be postponed to July, as it appears that Greece’s European partners are concerned about the prior actions not being implemented.
On Monday sources from Brussels told ToVima.gr that the Greek government “has not implemented any of the prior actions”, doubting as to whether Greece would collect the installment at all.
This will make the new Minister of Finances Gikas Hardouvelis’ first Eurogroup session on Thursday tougher than he would expect. Mr. Hardouvelis had a meeting with the PM’s associate Stavros Papastavrou on Monday to go over critical points of the troika negotiations.
It is not yet clear whether Mr. Hardouvelis will attempt to claim the June and July loan installments worth two billion euros, or whether he will postpone discussion for autumn, when negotiations with the troika are set to begin.
In any case though, his European counterparts will stress how the coalition government has been idle in respect to its bailout commitments, before and after the recent elections. Amongst these actions are legislating for the creation of the “mini DEI”, implementing a zero deficit clause for 2015 and unifying all supplementary pension funds under ETEA.
Furthermore, Mr. Hardouvelis will be asked to explain about the circumstances under which Harris Theoharis “resigned” from the post of General Secretary of Public Revenue and the procedures to replace him.
