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 an agreement more wide.
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.
State Minister Nikos Pappas, said today that the tentative agreement reached in the Eurogroup last Friday is a “small step, but very important, because it goes in the opposite direction to the steps we have taken before.”
Speaking to private television Mega, one of the closest to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras collaborators, said that among the proposals is the law that expands the number of people eligible for the 100 time to pay its debts Hacienda, since it is a measure “to increase tax revenue.”
This proposal will be accompanied by government forecasts, which estimated 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,
In reference to legislative work, Pappas said, the government is not willing to “tie us hands and simply wait to complete all times, “and even 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 true 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 no tax increases 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, and now Tsipras 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 prepared a study estimating 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 of unpaid debts can finance a package of measures to end the humanitarian crisis and collect food aid, free electricity, housing accommodation or universal access to healthcare.
Also included several of the Greece aims to develop recommendations together with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Athens today sent a three-page list of institutions to receive an initial assessment and outline proposals Ships tomorrow to members.
“We hope and we are pretty sure that we will get other institutions,” said Finance Minister Yanis Varufakis, who explained that if the answer is yes “be a conference telephone with institutions and automatically advance the process “and otherwise” there will be a new Eurogroup “.
The Greek proposals 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.
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