Remei Calabuig
Athens, Feb 22 (EFE) .- The Greek government is finalizing the detailed list of reforms to be sent to Brussels tomorrow for eurozone partners finally decide whether extending the financing of Greece and remains optimistic about a positive response that provides the basis for a broader agreement.
Members of the Executive held marathon meetings to develop the necessary measures, which focus on the fight against tax evasion and corruption and reforming the public sector.
The Minister of State, Nikos Pappas, said today that the tentative agreement reached in the Eurogroup last Friday is a “small step, but very important, because going in the opposite direction to the steps we have taken before. “
Speaking to private television Mega, one of the closest to Prime Minister al, Alexis Tsipras, said that among the proposals is the law expanding the number of people eligible for the 100 time to pay their debts to the Treasury, as it is a measure “to increase tax revenue.”
This proposal will be accompanied by government forecasts , which estimates that its implementation will provide instant revenue to the state, it contains strong incentives.
It is anticipated that the draft of this law is presented next week in Parliament,
Referring to legislative work, Pappas said, the government is not willing to “tie our hands and simply wait to complete all times”, and although said he is open to “discuss” proposals, “no sovereignty issues relating to internal policies that are out of negotiations. “
” We continue with the same determination and faithful to the popular mandate, “remarked government sources after one of the meetings of the Council of Ministers, some of which have insisted in recent times that the Government will maintain its “red lines”.
Among these is the increase in the minimum wage, government sources say that is related to the private sector has no direct budgetary cost, freezing pensions and not raising taxes such as VAT.
These are issues that the troika of creditors (European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) was strict with the previous government of conservative Andonis Samaras, Tsipras and now seeks to gain time to submit their own reforms.
The list specifies plans to fight tax evasion, notes the online newspaper “TheToc”.
The Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas, has conducted a study which estimates that can raise 1,500 million euros combating the smuggling of fuel, 800 million to combat the smuggling of snuff and 2,500 million facing corruption.
The government estimates that revenue coming from this plan and unpaid debts can finance a package of measures to end the humanitarian crisis and collect food aid, free electricity, housing accommodation or access universal healthcare.
Also included several recommendations Greece aims to develop together with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Athens today sent a list three pages to the institutions to receive an initial assessment and outline proposals Ships today to members.
“We hope and we are pretty sure that we will get other institutions,” said the minister Finance Varufakis Yanis, who explained that if the answer is yes “be a conference call with institutions and automatically advance the process” and otherwise “there will be a new Eurogroup”.
Proposals Greek will be examined during a conference call involving the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Pierre Moscovisi; President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and the director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde.
This optimism seems to have not caught on in Germany, whose parliament is one that must approve the extension of credit and which subject the extension to the analysis of the reforms proposed at Athens and, above all, what happens in four months, when they have to negotiate new credits. EFE
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