At the end of the second session of today’s meeting of the Eurogroup dedicated to Greece, the leader of the European Stability Mechanism, Klaus Regling, has explained that these short-term measures, designed by your institution, they will already be applied “in the coming weeks”, and while pointing out that it is at this stage difficult to “quantify” the value of the set of measures, these will have “a significant impact on the sustainability of Greek debt”.
The president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said that the agreement reached last may with regard to the sustainability of the Greek debt envisaged measures in various categories, being already just on top of the table – and dependent on the completion of the second review of the assistance program is still in progress – the measures of relief in the short term, until 2018.
The responsible europeans have rejected liminarmente the adoption of the same measures of debt relief to other countries that were also under the program, such as Portugal, arguing that the case of Greece is unique.
In the previous meeting of the Eurogroup, held in November, Dijsselbloem has assured that the Eurogroup did not discuss or discuss a possible renegotiation of the interest of Portuguese debt, arguing that there is a “huge difference” in relation to Greece.
“we have Not discussed and will not discuss, because Portugal is able to manage its own debt. And we are not certain that it should be so in the case of Greece, this is the big difference. Let’s not confuse” situations, said the president of the Eurogroup.
At the same time, Regling corroborated the idea Dijsselbloem, to defend that the cases of Portugal and Greece are very different, for example with the interest on the debt 10 years in the secondary market, which in the case of Portugal is around 3.5%, while for Greece they are 8%, pointed out.
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