On Monday 13 February, the European Commission spoke out against the attitude of the IMF, whose economic forecasts regarding Greece are felt to be overly pessimistic, with prospects of finalising the second monitoring mission of the third Greek bailout plan before the Eurogroup meeting of Monday 20 February seeming to be slipping away.
“We cannot base future decisions on more pessimistic figures than our own”, said the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Pierre Moscovici,...