Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Sunday said that IMF is not interested on the size of the primary surplus in 2019 but uses it to push Greece to reforms on the tax free ceiling and pensions because last summer Greece completed two very important reforms in the pension system and in the taxation" he said to reporters after his address to SYRIZA Central Committee.

The demands put forward by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which require that Greece legislates now for measures that will be implemented after the end of the current bailout program are sidelining democratic values, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Thursday, after a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels. 

According to sources from the Ministry of Finance the Greek side has sent a letter without its proposals on how to close the negotiations to the institutions. These include a reduced tax-free limit, new taxes and new cuts on salaries.