Dijsselbloem and Moscovici on the Greek programme

Dijsselbloem: “Mission chiefs will return to Athens… There is enough common ground, enough preparation has been done for their mission to continue, hopefully to work towards a successful completion. We realise that if we want to complete, fully comply to what has been agreed this summer, more work will have to be done.”

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Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras talks to FT

STOURNARAS: “Greece is in the frontline because we have thousands of kilometers of coastline, so it is very difficult to control the refugee wave. Now, the analysis we have done and we have presented abroad, is that from the refugee problem the benefits mainly go to the host countries and the costs mainly stay with the transit countries…”

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