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Greece faces 'major issue of trust'

July 11, 2015 7:20 pm

Eurozone finance chiefs are seeking further signs from Greece that it is serious about delivering its promises of reform in return for a debt rescue.

Several ministers arrived for their crunch meeting in Brussels expressing scepticism that Athens would implement the austerity measures it has proposed.

Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem spoke of a “major issue of trust”.

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But Greece’s Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis told the BBC his government is “committed to moving forward”.

Greek MPs have voted in favour of the measures proposed by PM Alexis Tsipras – despite the fact that many of the ideas had been rejected by the Greek people in last Sunday’s referendum.