FinMin in Berlin

Government vice-president and Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos will be in Berlin on Wednesday for a previously scheduled working dinner with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble, a ministry announcement said on Tuesday.

A day earlier, Finance Minister and government vice-president Evangelos Venizelos chaired a broad cabinet meeting on the coordination of the government's actions tpwards the implementation of the Memorandum, the Medium-Term fiscal adjustment programme and the programme's Implementation Law.

According to a ministry announcement Venizelos, in coordination with the prime minister and the parliament president, will submit to the cabinet a specific timetable of the legislative initiatives dealing with the implementation of the Memorandum and the Medium-Term programme, given that a large number of initiatives need to be set in motion in the next two months.

In that context, the inter-ministerial committee will be in session at both the ministerial level and at the level of ministry secretaries-general for the constant monitoring of the timetable and list of required initiatives.