Nadia Valavani

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in the unenviable position of passing legislation he doesn’t even believe in to avert a Grexit and enter a new agreement with the troika (that is now called troika again).

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will fully back the one-article draft law outlining the “Greekment” with European creditors when it comes before a Parliament vote on Wednesday, whereas close aides again flatly dismissed reports that he will resign.

“That would be neither ethical nor expedient,” one close aide stressed.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, addressing a crucial debate in Parliament roughly two days before an unofficial ultimatum by the country’s creditors runs out, said there’s a “chance, and not certainty for an agreement”.

Alt. Finance Minister Nadia Valavani told private ALPHA TV that the government issued an order to prohibit the withdrawal of cash from safety deposit boxes.

“If somebody wants to go to their safety deposit box they can take everything except cash,” she said.

The now embattled Tsipras government has decided to declare a bank holiday … all of next week!
Under that decision, the next open day for banks will be Monday, July 6, a day after an unprecedented call for a referendum.

The deadline for the submission of income tax declarations will be extended to July 20, Kathimerini understands.

Sources say that Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani will announce the extension in the next few days, but even that date may prove too soon for the completion of the delayed procedure.

The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government may have decided to do away with more formal attire — actually just the suit tie – but now formal seating arrangements also appear as … optional.

The prospects for one of Greece?s few privatization projects, the development of the old Athens Airport plot at Elliniko, appeared unclear Wednesday, after Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani said a small portion of the plot would be set aside to create waste management facilities for four municipalities.

The leftist Greek government on Monday continued to face a “Whac-a-Mole”-like array of political “hiccups”, with the latest emerging from newspaper report out of Thessaloniki accusing an alternate minister of exporting 80,000 euros last March.

Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani sent a document to the special permanent committee in Parliament stating that new state-set objective-value prices for real estate would be ready by mid-June.