One of the oddest reforms in a list that the new Greek government was obliged to present eurogroup creditors in a last minute bid to receive a loan extension deal, has to do with the decades-old scourge of tax evasion in the country.
The latest issue of German magazine “Spiegel” is titled: “Fighting Corruption: Greek officials are inept”. The magazine states that “Greece suffers from nepotism and corruption”.
Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said on Wednesday he was ready to implement a Greek court ruling that 28 million euros ($29.7 million) was owed for the murder of 218 people in the Greek town of Distomo in 1944, by Wehrmacht troops.
The Brussels Group will be discussing technical issues regarding the reforms decided at the Eurogroup meeting and when necessary it will appoint technical teams to visit Greece, according to government sources.