Evangelos Venizelos, who was brought in as Finance Minister of Greece just two weeks ago...reinforced the importance of euro zone membership to the country and said: "We are a member of the European Union and a member of the euro zone. This is definitive and not a reversible situation." [CNBC]
At least not any time soon.
Officials are *not* happy with the work Greece has turned in re: its plan.
When Germany says 'bend over,' you say 'how far'.
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Don't look now but Greece is still fiscally f@cked.
Greece doesn't need any of you! Greece's finance minister on Thursday denied a report citing the country's representative to the IMF as saying Athens would need a third bailout package. The euro weakened against the dollar on the report, which was later also denied by the official quoted in the article and came as international inspectors are mulling handing over the next tranche of Greece's second aid package. "The country's positions are formulated by the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister," Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told Reuters in response to the Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal report. The article quoted Thanos Catsambas, Alternate Executive Director at the IMF Executive Board representing Greece, as saying the country would need a third bailout from European creditors. It also reported Greece could not bridge a funding gap and had met only 22 percent of targets for the second bailout...Catsambas issued a statement saying the article included "at least three important inaccuracies". [Reuters]
