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German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a statement  just before the upcoming Euroworking Group ruled out the possibility of a haircut of the Greek debt. He underscored that something like this would be a violation of the Lisbon Treaty. As he said, something like that could take place only if Greece was not inside the Eurozone.

Yanis Varoufakis told German business daily “Handelsblatt” that Greece would require a new international debt deal in order to meet obligations of almost 11.5 billion euros between June and August.

According to Ethnos newspaper, an ambitious government plan places all 7 million insured citizens into just three Social Security Funds, responsible for all pensions and gratuity.