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Greece has no urgent need to return to markets and can wait for two years, Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism said on Tuesday.
Greece will access markets gradually more and more, while “markets will want to know whether Greece can maintain a solid economic and financial course,” former Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) in an interview prior to attending the presentation of his book’s Greek edition in Athens on Tuesday.
Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yannis Stournaras in an interview with ‘Parapolitika’ newspaper on Saturday stressed the need to shield the Greek economy against international turmoil and align with what has been agreed with the partners.
“Despite the positive elements it has to show, Greece is still in a transitional period and is therefore affected by the climate of instability,” Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Dimitris Liakos said in an interview with ‘Real News’ newspaper.
The 2018 budget voted in Parliament on Tuesday night, marks Greece’s exit from the fiscal adjustment programme in August 2018, its return to the markets and the strengthening of growth rates.
BRUSSELS (ANA/C. Vasilaki) – Greece should use the time before the end of its adjustment program to think about how to return to the markets, the managing director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling said after the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday.
The head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling said on Thursday it would be prudent for Greece to attempt its first foray into the markets before the end of its bailout program next year.