The finance ministry will table the 2020 draft budget in Parliament on Monday.
The draft budget will provide a primary surplus that easily meets the 3.5 pct of GDP target and forecasts that growth will be between 2.5-3.0 pct in 2020.

Greece is now facing a migrant issue and not a refugee one, as it was the case in 2015, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday addressing the parliament.

The government on Thursday afternoon backed off a hasty plan to transfer 32 civil servants from other state entities to Parliament and its affiliated foundation, after a firestorm of criticism by the opposition, the media and social media over charges of favoritism and nepotism.