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On December 9^th, Greek Prime Minister Yannis Stournaras said he hope Greece can get the next bailout with EUR1 billion, although it was not a smooth conversation between Greece and the debt loaner, as the rumor goes. 
      
Troika (Refers to European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund Organization) will return Greece again, the process of reform is under assessment.
      
 The Troika inspection group returned to Greece on December 10^th to evaluate the reform process in Greece, and meanwhile the arguments on the reform schedule are in the air.
      
Stournaras said: “We will come up with an agreement ASAP, the schedule looks good so we hope to get some bailout by the end of this year.
       
Until now Greek government has obtained an international loan of EUR240 billion with rigid tightening and reform condition. But Troika is not expecting to turn in any new bailout, only because Greece failed to keep its promises on the reform as plan, which is not satisfied by Troika.
       
 Stournaras reclaimed that Greece is not tightening the policy. To ensure the release of next bailout, Troika never stops to give Greece pressure on curbing its spending.
      
 “Like I have explained to you how the society is react to the tightening policy, which is the reason why we don’t want to continuous tighten our policy. I think after Troika return Greece, we can work it out together.
     
The recover of Greek economy might help market access.
      
Recently the Greek economy is sending out a signal of recovering. During the past weekend, a budget has been approved by the Greek parliament which can help Greek economy to recover in 2014 from the recession of six year and get an increase of 0.6%.
      
 There is a surplus of EUR0.812 on 2013 budget which is the first time for the past ten years and it is one of the conditions for Troika to give bailout.
 
 Stournaras said he is optimistic about the economic future of Greece and hope that in 2014 it can regain the market access, which means it will open its market for overseas commodities and services.
 
 He then added: “I think next year will be better. We can achieve an increase and market access next year, it will be the first time since 2010, so that is very important.”

For the plan of covering the financial deficit of Greek, he is optimistic about it. Financial deficit is the gap of the budgeted debt volume of a country and its future tax income; it is another dispute of Troika. Meanwhile Greek believes that the deficit is around EUR0.5 billion while Troika believe it is around EUR2 billion.
 
 Stournaras said: “There is a huge financial deficit for us and it is getting smaller. The smaller of gap will further the increase of finance, investment and export will drive the economic increase o next year.” The appreciation of Euro becomes the obstacle of economic recover of Greek. Stournaras pointed out that a potential obstacle for the economic recover of Greek is the appreciation of Euro. It will do nothing good for Greek as many goods are exported to Greek from Euro zone. The appreciation of Euro will make Greek commodity not attractive to the clients as before and baffle its recover.
      
Stournaras said: “I am concerned about the appreciation of Euro. Most of the commodities from Greece are exported to the Euro zone, therefore I am concern about the competitiveness of Euro.”