Greece secures bailout deal with Troika

At least $10.4 billion in bailout funds were approved by the IMF, ECB and EU to continue Greece's reform efforts.

歐元集團(tuán)主席戴塞爾布盧姆宣布，希臘將有條件從歐盟獲得30億歐元的貸款、歐洲央行20億歐元的購債注資，國際貨幣基金組織向其提供約18億歐元的援助，援金總計68億歐元。由歐盟、歐洲央行和國際貨幣基金組織組成的“三駕馬車”對希臘的評估報告稱，希臘正在推進(jìn)各項措施以實現(xiàn)改革目標(biāo)，在多個領(lǐng)域取得了重要進(jìn)展。IMF總裁拉加德說，希臘為改革付出的努力令人尊重，相信希臘償債能力具有可持續(xù)性。歐盟委員會負(fù)責(zé)經(jīng)濟(jì)和貨幣事務(wù)的委員奧利·雷恩說，希臘近期在改革方面雖取得進(jìn)展，但仍需更多決心和努力。希臘應(yīng)著力刺激市場競爭，促進(jìn)發(fā)展私有制。

Greece looks ready to get its next installment of bailout money. It’s money to convince the Troika that its economic reforms are on track.

The IMF, the ECB, the Commission had reached a deal with Greece on a set of controversial cuts and reforms, now paves the way for Euro Zone finance ministers to approve the next payment of around $10.4 million.

The Troika get warned that Greece was behind in some areas and the economic outlook was uncertain. The situation is so flawed that the mayor of Athens was assaulted on Sunday outside a meeting where cuts were being discussed.

Elinda Labropoulou is in the Greek capital and joins us this evening. Elinda, where here we go again? The Greek, the Greek, their government get their money; the Troika has probably turned a blind eye to things that maybe they shouldn’t have done. But the fact is nobody is going to say whether or not, this is well and truly off track or not.

Well, you are absolutely right about that. This is a situation that we have seen a number of times before.

But it seems that right now it’s not the time to upset these balances. We have seen a lot of instability in the overall region. We have seen also a lot of instability in the neighboring Portugal. So in that sense it seems that the Troika really now wants to keep tones much lower; it wants to help Greece, if you like, to try and push these reforms.

But those are very difficult reforms to push through, simply because it’s something that Greece has done on a number of occasions, and things are just getting tougher and tougher all the time.

The unions are back on the streets, people are mobilizing. And what the Greek government hasn’t managed to do until now for years effectively until now, the cuts in the civil sector are once again coming up on the agenda. So what Greece is gonna trying and do, is look, looking at very tough reforms in a very short phase of time.

Ahead of it, most of it has to do with mobility putting people in labor reserve and effectively having to fire thousands of people. In the civil sector, it’s looking at privatization that has still not been completed. The number of these deals have fallen through. It’s also looking at cuts in the Health sector. It’s a very difficult time perhaps for Greece.