Georgiades Under Unbearable Pressure To Spend In Public Sector

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on August 21 urged MPs to up vote the bill on the state payroll otherwise, sooner or later, the country would find itself facing a new fiscal impasse, Cyprus Mail reports.
In an interview in Alithia newspaper, Georgiades said that if the bill was not passed, it would send a negative message to the credit rating agencies and the international investment community. They will interpret such a development, he said, as undermining the financial recovery “achieved with effort and sacrifice”.