KATHIMERINI (Sunday)

Samaras: There will not be a Third Memorandum

The Prime Minister lays his cards on the table for Kathimerini

The country is emerging from the period of Memoranda, is the message conveyed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in an article in Kathimerini, written in the wake of the country’s return to the markets and the visit of chancellor Angela Merkel to Athens. Indirectly issuing criticism of opposition party SYRIZA which he did not name, Mr Samaras said that there were some who “now that the return of the country to the markets is refuting the idea that there will be a ‘third memorandum’ are awkwardly being dragged along by developments.” At the same time he highlights his new personal priorities in the country’s turn towards growth and the “relief of all those who are hurting”. “Greece, step by step, is succeeding. As long as we don’t turn back now, as long as we don’t allow those to succeed who want to keep Greece mired in misery, complaining and in isolation,” he writes characteristically. 

ELEFTHEROTYPIA (Sunday)

3rd Memorandum revealed by IMF

While Merkel was speaking in Athens with Antonis Samaras about reforms…

Reza Moghadam, the Director of the European Department of the IMF was clear about the management of Greece’s debt: “The financing needs of Greece in the coming years will be much greater than the capital that it can raise from the markets,” and that potentially a third assistance program from the Eurozone would be required.

TA NEA (Monday)

Economic developments accelerate

An end to the fast!

A new growth plan is being prepared
There will be a gentle ‘haircut’ of the debt
Mario Draghi opens the taps

 
 

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON (Monday)

Shops open on Sunday:

Little trade, lots of chemicals

Yesterday’s Easter shopping on the Ermou high street took place in the company of riot police who contributed… beatings and teargas to the unemployed shop-workers who had gathered to protest the shop openings. Consumers, tourists and even small children were gassed indiscriminately, provoking widespread anger.  

DIMOKRATIA (Sunday)

A former minister of George Papandreou reveals the role of the Deputy PM:

How Venizelos wrote off the 220,000,000 of Siemens

  • Kastanidis releases a book with bombshells, as an act of revenge on behalf of Papandreou
  • “Vangelis [Venizelos] always hurried to satisfy the demands of Berlin.”

Unknown aspects of the activity of the current leader of PASOK and the team of MPs that supported him during the premiership of George Papandreou have been revealed. “He was totally aligned with the leadership of the German Finance Ministry, whose demands he would satisfy immediately.”