The auditors will look over Greece’s primary surplus, benefits and structural changes

The final assessment round from the troika will start today with the check on the primary surplus from 2013 that the auditors will accept as final before its being put to distribution.

The Greek government appears cautious about the final amount that will be agreed, announced and eventually distributed.

The meeting of Thomsen’s team with Stournaras is set for 4 in the afternoon, but from the morning the technical teams will be at the MoF and the General Accounting Office.

At the meeting with Stournaras the auditors are expected to admit that despite their reservations in previous months, they fell off in their ratings and that eventually the country achieved its goal of zeroing its deficits a year earlier.

According to information, however, they may challenge the amount of the surplus and the effect it will have on 2014. In such a case, even if Eurostat announces on April 23 that the amount of the surplus for 2013 has exceeded 1.5 billion euros, its distribution will come after the troika assessment, since the viability of the Greek program will be notably burdened.

 
Draft laws are coming

Even if it receives eurogroup’s approval, the Greek government should rapidly proceed in implementing the legislation for the agreed measures, until April the latest.

It will need to once again prepare draft laws that will encounter difficulties in their preparation and enactment in the Greek parliament. It will have to start with the taxation bill, which will be deposited probably next Thursday and is expected to incorporate some structural measures concerning privatizations and the control of government spending.