Only a few days before the EU-ECB-IMF troika of international creditors returns to Greece, the European Commission is demanding a further €2bn in cuts in 2014 as well as the closure of arms companies EAS and ELVO, reports To Ethnos.
Qualifying the Commission’s demand as “extortionate”, the daily reports that it has “prompted an intense malaise in Athens” —
… our partners’ excessive demands have inevitably given rise to fears of “suspicious machinations” at a time when the economy is showing signs of improvement.
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