La Greece another payment is missing International Monetary Fund. Yesterday Athens should have repaid the international institution 456 million euro, but from Washington they let it be known that the money "has not been received". This was confirmed by the spokesman of the IMF, Gerry Rice, specifying that the executive board has been informed.
Last June, Greece was the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the IMF, failing to cover maturing debts with the Fund for 1,6 billion euros. Now, therefore, the Greek country's arrears of payments have exceeded 2 billion euros.
"The Greek authorities' request for an extension of the obligations on payments due on June 30 will be discussed by the executive board in the coming weeks," Rice explained.
Meanwhile, today the parties in power in Athens are meeting to examine the heavy rigor measures that the country will have to adopt to obtain the third bailout from international creditors, dopo the agreement found yesterday morning. Already this morning the parliamentary groups of Syriza and Anel, the two parties in government, should meet to examine the draft law on the new measures.
According to the plan approved in Brussels, the government must get the laws approved within Wednesday. At that point, too the Parliaments of six other EU countries (including Germany) will have to express themselves on the plan.
Later, “Wednesday night or Thursday morning”, “one o'clock” will take place Eurogroup meeting by teleconference,” President Jeroen Dijsselbloem announced yesterday. We are talking about a 12 billion bridging loan to allow Greece to overcome the emergency. By July 20 Athens must pay 3,5 billion to the ECB.
