Greeces negotiations with international creditors took a turn for the worse Wednesday after the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) shelved a recently announced debt relief package in protest at the governments plan to give a one-off supplement to low-income pensioners and to keep in place a discount in valued-added tax, to eastern Aegean islands, it had agreed to scrap as part of its bailout commitments.
And in what is widely seen as act of defiance, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for a roll call in Parliament Thursday over the measures he announced last week in a televised address. The move by Tsipras seeks to stick to an election pledge to revive a Christmas bonus that had been scrapped by international creditors.
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