Democracy

After nearly seven months of negotiations, the review mission of the Troika in Athens has been completed, paving the way for the disbursement of the long awaited tranche, an amount sufficient to cover the borrowing needs of the country for May 2014 (about 9€ billion). In the field of reforms, many fronts remained open -some of them the so-called Troika of international lenders insisted to be closed, as prior actions for reaching an agreement. However, the willingness of the EU partners to endorse the Greek government on its progress is evident.