2016-05-06mishtalk.com

In a letter to all 19 ministers sent on Thursday night and obtained by the Financial Times, Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief, said stalemated talks with Athens to find €3bn in "contingency" budget cuts, which have gone on for a month, had become fruitless and that debt relief must be put on the table immediately, or risk losing IMF participation in the programme.

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Ms Lagarde stuck by the IMF's assessment that such reforms would only produce a primary surplus of 1.5 per cent in 2018 -- not the 3.5 per cent the EU has mandated.



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