Rehn, Commission officials have lunch with central bank governor

European Commissioner for economic and monetary affairs Olli Rehn, in Athens on Thursday for talks with the Greek government, had an informal working lunch with Bank of Greece governor George Provopoulos and afterwards noted his support for the work of the country’s central bank.

Rehn noted that the crisis in Greece mainly concerned its public finances and not the banking sector, noting that the Bank of Greece had taken all measures needed to ensure the stability of Greece’s financial system.

Apart from Rehn, attending the meal were Olli Rehn’s spokesman Amadeu Altafaj and the representative of the European Commission in the EU-IMF troika Servaas Deroose.