Representatives of institutional creditors departed Athens on Friday in order to brief their respective leaderships in Brussels, although they are expected back in the Greek capital on Saturday.
Only contacts between creditors’ teams of technocrats and Greek officials are scheduled for Friday.
The most significant meeting scheduled for Saturday is with Greek labor minister Giorgos Katrougalos, whose portfolio includes social security and labor relations in the country.
Meanwhile, a top finance ministry official on Friday was quoted as saying that Athens’ goal is to achieve a draft agreement by Tuesday, so that the first review of the Greek program will be achieved by Orthodox Easter, i.e. May 1.
That date is nine days past the previous and oft-repeated deadline of April 22.
