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July 29, 2013
The European Union and International Monetary Fund are holding onto Greece’s next €2.5 billion bailout installment until Monday as they wait for the Greek Parliament to fulfill one last condition.
Before Greece can ‘unlock’ their next fiscal aid package, they must follow the directive of the lenders and adopt one last fiscal stipulation by the end of the day Thursday.
The last unfulfilled ‘step’ involves putting 4,200 government employees into a ‘labor mobility scheme’, where workers are laid off and the government tries to find them new jobs within eight months.
The Troika of lenders – the IMF, the EU Commission, and the European Central Bank – have asked Greece to fulfill 22 different financial directives agreed upon in June in order to receive the aid. Greece has “satisfactorily implemented” 21.
“Subject to confirmation of compliance with the last outstanding prior action, national procedures may thereafter be finalized and are expected to be completed by 29 July,” Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Eurogroup will meet on Friday to vote on the bailout installments, and the financial transfer will be completed on Monday.
Once this last stipulation is passed by the Greek parliament, Dijsselbloem said the European Financial Stability Facility will be able to release the first sub-tranche of the next installment.
Last week, the Greek Parliament approved the redeployment of 25,000 public sector workers by the end of the year in order to secure its last installment of $9.2 billion (7 billion euro) from the Troika creditors.
“The euro area member states have been informed today by the Troika institutions that Greece has satisfactorily implemented the prior actions required for the release of the next disbursement under the financial assistance program, except for one action whose adoption by the Greek Parliament needs to be completed by Thursday, 25 July,” Dijsselbloem said.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble visited Greece and held talks with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, and on Tuesday he sent a letter to the German parliament that he couldn’t verify Greece had fulfilled all 22 requirements.
