ND refutes ANA-MPA report it was briefed about scrapping of pension cuts

The opposition New Democracy party on Friday issued a statement refuting a report by the state-run ANA-MPA news agency saying that European Commission sources had suggested that planned pension cuts would be scrapped and that Greek political parties had been briefed of this development.

Earlier on Friday, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency had cited Commission sources as saying that representatives of the country's creditors visiting Greece to check on the progress of reforms had deemed that the social security system was on a sustainable path and therefore pension cuts planned as of January 1, 2019, would not be necessary.

"New Democracy did not vote in favor of the measure for new pension cuts as 1.1.2019. The measure, which was not even in the third and unnecessary memorandum, was passed with the exclusive responsibility of the SYRIZA-ANEL government," the...