Debt and primary surpluses the 'thorny' issues between IMF and institutions
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The standing disagreement between the IMF and EU institutions is the debt and the primary surpluses, according to Finance ministry sources.
They same sources underlined that the contingent mechanism can't be implemented in 2017 based on the primary surpluses of 2016 as according to recent data, the primary surpluses are so high that can't fall below 0.5 percent.
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