Timeline: Greece seeks new tranche of $155 billion loan
14:57 24May11 -TIMELINE-Greece seeks new tranche of 110 billion euros ($155 billion) loan
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou failed to get consensus from opposition leaders on Tuesday on a new set of austerity measures aimed at averting default.
On Monday, Greece unveiled a series of privatizations, part of a goal to raise 50 billion euros by 2015 to pay down its debt mountain as it tries to secure the next tranche of a 110 billion euros EU/IMF bailout.
Here are events to come in Greek efforts to secure the loan:
* TUESDAY, MAY 24:
-- Papandreou holds separate meetings with Greek political leaders at Maximos Mansion.
-- Greece's industrialists union SEV holds its annual meeting at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall. Papandreou will address the meeting. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou and SEV chairman Dimitris Daskalopoulos to deliver speeches.
* WEDNESDAY, MAY 25:
-- President Karolos Papoulias meets Papandreou at the Presidential Hall.
* FRIDAY, MAY 27:
-- April producer price inflation.
* FRIDAY, JUNE 3:
-- Debt agency sets amount of 6-month t-bills to be auctioned June 7.
* SATURDAY, JUNE 4:
-- Public sector union ADEDY holds rally to protest against new austerity measures announced by the government, at Klathmonos square.
-- ADEDY also says it will stage a 24-hour strike later in June to protest against the austerity measures and privatizations.
* MONDAY, JUNE 20:
-- Eurogroup meeting of euro zone finance ministers and Ecofin meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxembourg
* THURSDAY, JUNE 24:
-- Summit of EU heads of state and government in Brussels.
* SATURDAY, AUGUST 20:
-- Greece to repay a 6.7 billion euro, 5-year bond which matures on this date.
* NO SPECIFIC DATES:
-- EU/ECB/IMF inspectors in Athens to assess whether Greece can get a fifth tranche in June from a 110 billion euro bailout.
-- The government says it will submit the mid-term fiscal plan to parliament, in early June.
(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit and Renee Maltezou, Athens Bureau)
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