Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction
Interior Minister: “There will be no memoranda”
The memoranda are over, according to Minister of the Interior, Nikos Voutsis, who stated that there are no new measures in the list of reforms sent by FinMin Yanis Varoufakis to the commission. According to Mr. Voutsis, the text sent by the government has nothing to do with new measures or new memoranda.
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PM expected to name presidential candidate over weekend
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