“IMF worries about the numbers. It wants Greek government to achieve the numbers set. Primary surplus of 3.5% in 2018. Because, as I told to six finance ministers, if Greece does not turn over a new leaf, we won’t be able to complete this program, as we and our partners want” Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos stressed during a press briefing on Monday.

“We will not do the same mistake again, we will not be engaged in endless discussions as we did before,” added Mr. Tsakalotos referring to the beginning of the program evaluation criticizing indirectly the actions of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Mr. Tsakalotos also stated that “We have invited the IMF to participate in the program. We have no problem of IMF participating in the program” while referring to information according to which lenders believe there is a financial gap and wants the government to cover it, he said: “We have no information that the lenders want new measures”.