Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the man who ruined International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde’s Easter, visited the IMF headquarters in Washington for a meeting on 6 p.m. on Sunday (1 a.m. Monday Greek time).  The informal meeting was requested by Varoufakis so that Greek reforms mandated by institutional creditors to relaunch a bailout plan are approved — including a 450-mln-euro installment that Greece needs to pay the IMF on April 9.

Lagarde arrived at the building an hour before the scheduled time, accompanied by Poul Thomsen, the IMF’s Director of the European Department. On his part, Varoufakis is accompanied by Christos Panagopoulos, Greece’s Ambassador to the US and former IMF representative of Greece, Panagiotis Roumeliotis.

Sources state that Varoufakis had requested the meeting. The fact that the meeting couldn’t wait until after Easter is indicative of its importance.