The latest meeting between troika chiefs and Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras ended after just 45 minutes amid reports that the two sides had failed to agree on where some 2.5 billion euros of spending cuts should come from. Stournaras said his aim remained to reach a basic agreement before a Eurogroup summit on Monday.
Meanwhile back at the ranch…. the coalition is starting to wobble over ‘memory sticks’ and tax evasion; and security breaches at the Defense Ministry aren’t helping matters either…
PM Samaras told an IHT conference that it would be ‘very positive’ if the ECB rolled over Greek bonds, but that’s been ruled out by ECB’s Draghi
It’s all becoming a bit of a soap opera, but the phrase that keeps coming to mind with me is ‘Physician, heal thyself’
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