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Greece will remain on the road to fiscal stability and "will implement, with determination, the reforms needed to be completed," Finance Minister Costis Hatzidakis said on Friday. 

Greece will remain on the road to fiscal stability and "will implement, with determination, the reforms needed to be completed," Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said on Friday.

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis arrived in Brussels on Thursday to participate in the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings.

Hatzidakis was to present the priorities of the Greek government in the field of economic policy at the Eurogroup meeting on Thursday.

"The Eurogroup has confidence in us and the Greek economy shows resilience," Finance Minister Thodoros Pelagidis said in Luxembourg on Thursday, commenting on the European Commission's post-program surveillance report on Greece.

BRUSSELS - Serbia has partly carried out a 2022 policy guidance but has reached a good level of compliance in most statistical areas, according to the Joint Conclusions of the Economic and Financial Dialogue between the EU and the Western Balkans and Turkey (ECOFIN).

Bulgaria is making efforts to be ready to accept the euro no later than January 1, 2025.

Eirini Zarkadoula, the Brussels correspondent for ERT - the Greek Public Broadcasting Company  - and for the Athens News Agency, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the main takeaways from Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe's visit to Greece this week that once again put the country's economic progress in the spotlight. 

Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe, Ireland's minister for public expenditure, national development plan delivery and reform, is due to participate in a conference on the Greek economy titled "Resilience, Progress, Perspective" in Athens on Tuesday, which will be hosted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Amid the fallout from the Ukraine conflict and recent financial turmoil, Greece arrived at Thursday's regular European Council meeting in Brussels hoping to have a discussion on the new framework for fiscal policy conduct at the level of heads of state.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with his Italian and Portuguese colleagues, Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Costa, Friday morning on the sidelines of the European Union summit to discuss a coordinated position on issues of economic governance.

State Athens New Agency reported that the tripartite meeting was scheduled on Mitsotakis' initiative.