The government’s latest … non-paper on Thursday conveyed a position that leftist SYRIZA will not back down from its so-called “red lines”, a declaration that comes just a few hours after leaks from the economic policy team on measures concerning a hike in VAT rates, reinstatemetn of a 13th bonus pension, and cuts to auxiliary pensions.

According to the government, it will “insist on the lines it has set… Not only for political reasons, but social and financial reasoning”.

The government clarified — in a non-paper setting — that it won’t buckle in the face of pressure to continue labour market liberalization, slash supplementary pensions and continue the privatization of public assets, along with the issue of VAT increases.

“The government doesn’t have the public’s mandate to reach a deal that will overcome these lines, so it will not be doing that. The government insists on a deal without the crimes of the past,” was the quote by the unnamed official in the unofficial non-paper…