Varoufakis “IMF wants the pension reform? Request ridiculous “- BBC

GREECE

Milan , June 13, 2015 – 13:47

     
     
 

The demand of the International Monetary Fund to reform the pension system in Greece is” ridiculous. ” This was stated by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, in an interview with BBC Radio Four. “It is the kind of proposal that one puts on the table when it does not want to reach an agreement,” the minister added after that two days ago the IMF had described as “unsustainable” the pension system in Athens. For Varoufakis it is a position “breaking” that “you should just let it go.”

check average and age

IMF spokesman Gerry Rice had said in recent days that the pension system is not sustainable greek for “in this Country people are retiring seven years before in Germany, and average pensions are almost equal. ” The technicians in Athens reminded that the average pension of state is of 664.69 Euros per month and that the supplementary pension stops at 168.40 euro average, adding that 44.6% of pensioners live below the poverty line, fixed at 665 € monthly. However sources in Athens acknowledged that the average check is close to that German. Even on the average age of retirement engineers have wanted to correct the IMF spokesman, noting that the age for men is 63 years and is the same that is in Germany, while only for women is no difference ( 59 instead of 62 years in Germany). Since the signing of the first rescue program, in 2010, until 2013, the Greek pension checks decreased on average by 44.2% and 48% considering the public sector alone.

Eurogroup Thursday in Brussels

Meanwhile, the premier greek Alexis Tsipras has sent a delegation to Brussels with a new set of proposals to creditors. The delegation will arrive in the Belgian capital to meet with representatives of the creditors. The goal is to reduce the differences of pensions, taxes and primary surplus in view of the Eurogroup on Thursday in Luxembourg. The comparison between Greece and the creditors’ will not end with the release “of Athens from the euro, said Finance Minister Greek Yanis Varoufakis always the BBC. “I believe that no reasonable politician wants to take that road,” and “I think that Angela Merkel has not even begun to contemplate a Greek exit.” One answer, therefore, to rumors, denied by the same Merkel on Friday gave the Grexit as unavoidable in Berlin.

June 13, 2015 | 13:47

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