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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby kurupetos » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:38 pm

It's been revised and it will be accepted on Tuesday. :wink:
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby apc2010 » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:57 pm

kurupetos wrote:It's been revised and it will be accepted on Tuesday. :wink:


Any link please.
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby CBBB » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:01 pm

apc2010 wrote:
kurupetos wrote:It's been revised and it will be accepted on Tuesday. :wink:


Any link please.


http://www.sigmalive.com/news/oikonomia/105053
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby apc2010 » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:04 pm

CBBB wrote:
apc2010 wrote:
kurupetos wrote:It's been revised and it will be accepted on Tuesday. :wink:


Any link please.


http://www.sigmalive.com/news/oikonomia/105053


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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby apc2010 » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:17 pm

ANY amendment to the privatisations bill agreed with the ECB -EU and IMF would not be accepted by the troika of international lenders, reports Sigma Live.

According to the channel, the Ministry of Finance has been in contact with representatives of the troika in order to clarify whether changes to the bill would be acceptable.

The bill is being amended in Nicosia to accommodate concerns over workers legacy rights, after lawmakers turned down the existing bill last night.

Sigma reports that the troika insist any amendment cannot be accepted as it will be seen as violating the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding.

An unnamed troika official was quoted by Sigma as saying: “My understanding is that this provision goes beyond what is generally acceptable to the SOEs today. I would consider this a material change to our agreement on the content of the privatisations draft bill. Should this amendment be included in the formally adopted bill, I’m afraid the relevant MoU requirement (paragraph 3.6) will not be assessed as fulfilled.”

The government will re-submit the privatisation legislation to parliament, Government spokesman Christos Stylianides confirmed Friday
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby CBBB » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:22 pm

apc2010 wrote:ANY amendment to the privatisations bill agreed with the ECB -EU and IMF would not be accepted by the troika of international lenders, reports Sigma Live.

According to the channel, the Ministry of Finance has been in contact with representatives of the troika in order to clarify whether changes to the bill would be acceptable.

The bill is being amended in Nicosia to accommodate concerns over workers legacy rights, after lawmakers turned down the existing bill last night.

Sigma reports that the troika insist any amendment cannot be accepted as it will be seen as violating the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding.

An unnamed troika official was quoted by Sigma as saying: “My understanding is that this provision goes beyond what is generally acceptable to the SOEs today. I would consider this a material change to our agreement on the content of the privatisations draft bill. Should this amendment be included in the formally adopted bill, I’m afraid the relevant MoU requirement (paragraph 3.6) will not be assessed as fulfilled.”

The government will re-submit the privatisation legislation to parliament, Government spokesman Christos Stylianides confirmed Friday


From what I have read, and seen on TV, it was only one of the amendments that was not acceptable to the Troika, that was the one that made employees of all the SGO's on the Government payroll for life with their existing salary scales and pensions if they should lose their jobs as a result of privatisation. That would have rather defeated the whole object of privatisation.
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby Paphitis » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:14 pm

CBBB wrote:
apc2010 wrote:ANY amendment to the privatisations bill agreed with the ECB -EU and IMF would not be accepted by the troika of international lenders, reports Sigma Live.

According to the channel, the Ministry of Finance has been in contact with representatives of the troika in order to clarify whether changes to the bill would be acceptable.

The bill is being amended in Nicosia to accommodate concerns over workers legacy rights, after lawmakers turned down the existing bill last night.

Sigma reports that the troika insist any amendment cannot be accepted as it will be seen as violating the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding.

An unnamed troika official was quoted by Sigma as saying: “My understanding is that this provision goes beyond what is generally acceptable to the SOEs today. I would consider this a material change to our agreement on the content of the privatisations draft bill. Should this amendment be included in the formally adopted bill, I’m afraid the relevant MoU requirement (paragraph 3.6) will not be assessed as fulfilled.”

The government will re-submit the privatisation legislation to parliament, Government spokesman Christos Stylianides confirmed Friday


From what I have read, and seen on TV, it was only one of the amendments that was not acceptable to the Troika, that was the one that made employees of all the SGO's on the Government payroll for life with their existing salary scales and pensions if they should lose their jobs as a result of privatisation. That would have rather defeated the whole object of privatisation.


This kind of nonsense can only happen in Cyprus! I can't believe the RoC would even consider such a stupid amendment! :roll:
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby repulsewarrior » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:27 pm

ouch, all the ministers resign; why?
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby CBBB » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:05 pm

repulsewarrior wrote:ouch, all the ministers resign; why?


The President asked them to so he can have a bit of a re-shuffle.
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Re: No more Bail out ??

Postby Tim Drayton » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:07 pm

repulsewarrior wrote:ouch, all the ministers resign; why?


It is only the ministers from DIKO, isn't it? (Unless there has been a new development.) They didn't like the joint declaration for solving the Cyprus problem.
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