The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has changed its stance regarding the Greek banks and does not insist on a new quality control for their assets, said Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos talking on ANT1 channel. The Minister stated that the stress tests will be conducted next year in all European banks, as planned, but their results will be announced earlier and before the end of Greece's bailout program in the summer of 2018.

Greece?s upcoming third program review and the preparation for the country?s exit from the adjustment program in August 2018 were discussed in a meeting between Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and EU?s Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici in Brussels on Tuesday.

The Greek government doesn't question the quality of the statistical data on which the country's adjustment program is based on, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was quoted as telling the German newspaper Die Zeit, commenting on an article about the legal saga involving former statistics chief Andreas Georgiou.