Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Monday categorically denied that the government was considering cuts in wages and pensions, ANA reports.
In comments made to “Parapolitika” radio station, Staikouras noted: “We are not discussing cuts to wages and pensions.” He added that all tax cuts envisaged in the current state budget were implemented as scheduled. The finance minister noted that “what we were not able to do was extra tax cuts, for example, of the solidarity contribution, but as soon as the situation stabilizes the government will proceed with focused tax and contribution cuts.”
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