La Greece is able to leave the international financial assistance plan ahead of schedule and self-catering for funding needs next year. The Greek premier said so Antonis Samaras during a press conference in Berlin, after meeting with the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Athens has successfully returned to the capital market twice this year, fueling speculation that the country may seek to exit early from the 240 billion financial assistance plan granted by the European Union and the Monetary Fund. When asked about rumors of a divorce from the IMF, once the EU funding ended this year, Samaras replied: "I do not accept the term divorce, even if it is velvety."
“We have a partnership that has never been easy, quite the opposite, but that has certainly changed the face of our economy,” he said. “I think this collaboration will end sooner than expected. If it happens it will be a success, not a divorce,” she stressed.
Samaras also announced that Greece would start talks to get some new form of debt relief this year after troika scrutiny and bank balance sheet stress tests, and that the country would benefit from longer maturities and higher interest rates. bass.
“I think we will certainly be able to cover our financing needs next year,” Samaras said. "We'll see what happens with the next tranches of loans."
