Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is ready to accept the lenders’ proposal for the support package with a handful of changes, writes the Financial Times.
The Greek drama continues. Last night’ll Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had sent a letter in which he accepts the lenders’ requirements with a few changes, according to sources of the Financial Times.
According to the two-page letter sent to the heads of the EU Commission, the ECB and the IMF, Greece accepts all the proposed VAT changes with the exception that the country wants to maintain lower VAT for certain remote islands. To them, he wants to give a 30 percent discount, writes the FT.
Slower changes
Alexis Sipras also wants to phase-in of a later, 67-year retirement, moved up to October and that the extra premium that goes out to poor pensioners phased out more slowly than the lenders proposed.
“The Greek Republic is prepared to accept the proposal subject to the following modifications, additions or clarifications, as part of the outgoing program and a new program for which a request sent today, Tuesday, June 30, “writes Tsipras according to the FT.
” Thank you in advance for your support. I look forward to hearing from you, “concludes Tsipras.
Discussed tonight
The Eurozone finance ministers will discuss Tsipras new proposals at half past five in the afternoon, according to the Financial Times. According to sources within the euro zone contains the message parts that zone finance ministers will find it difficult to accept, according to Reuters.
The stock markets rising sharply after reports that Greece backs, reports the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange rose 1.5 percent after the announcement and the Eurozone stock index went up 2 , 8 percent and then back off slightly. Stockholm Stock Exchange’s OMXS30 index went up 0.8 percent.
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