With an agreement between cash-strapped Athens and EZ creditors still pending, the radical leftist Greek government on Friday — via the unofficial route — pointed to four areas where differences remain: pension reform, labor relations, a hike in VAT rates and “exploitation” of public assets.

The latter is what the SYRIZA government uses instead of “privatizations”, the word favored by Eurozone partners.

Using its increasingly preferred method of communication with the press — “non papers” — government sources cited three axes for which any future agreement must be based, namely, “respect for the country’s international obligations; building trust with the ‘institutions’, however, within the framework of respecting the government’s commitments to citizens for national sovereignty and an exit from austerity, as well as the exercise of a multi-dimensional foreign policy.”