Moscovici meeting Tsipras to push for completion of key reforms

EU Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici is meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Thursday morning to discuss the results of the Commission report which showed Greece has fallen behind in reforms required to receive almost 1 billion euros in aid.
Speaking to state-run news agency ANA-MPA after the publishing of the Commission's report on Wednesday and before his visit to Athens, he said the key reforms that have to be addressed are the government's plan to protect the primary residences of distressed mortgage holders and the sale of Greek public power utility PPC's lignite units.
"It is not a simple matter, I often discuss it with the Greek authorities and the prime minister," Moscovici told ANA-MPA, referring to PPC.
Concerning the mortgage holders, he said the new legislation that will replace the so-called Katseli law should protect...

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