The proposals of the Eurogroup in Athens, to respect the commitments of the bailout, “are absurd and unacceptable”. So a government official greek, as reported by Bloomberg. rejected the latest solution proposed by the government greek eurozone partners to solve the knot of debt.
News that, if confirmed, confirmed as a move towards a stalemate Eurogroup which opened in afternoon in Brussels to try to find a solution to the impasse that followed the elections in Greece. Alexis Tsipras asks for time, but Berlin is there and, in the words of Finance Minister Schaeuble Woflgang, Athens accuses of being “irresponsible”. Contrreplica the spokesman for the Greek Government, Gavriil Sakellaridis: “I could say that Germany is irresponsible. Who is irresponsible and who is responsible is a subjective assessment – he added, according to reports Ekathimerini – but I will not descend to the level of insults”
In the afternoon opened the Eurogroup in Brussels that he had to find an agreement, but that – at least for now – seems decidedly uphill. So much so that there is already talk of a postponement. “It has not happened anything tangible in the weekend so expect even that Greece will explain in detail what he wants from us,” said the Irish Minister of Finance, Michael Noonan, explaining that it is possible a new meeting next Friday. “We have high hopes that an agreement can be reached today” on Greece, is an indication that also comes from European sources.
The willingness of all parties is to reach an agreement but are content to divide the different capitals. “We do not want new loans,” reiterated Premier greek Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the weekly magazine Stern, because “we need time, not money, to make reforms.” The piccata response Berlin arrived this morning from the microphones Deutschlandfunk Radio: “I’m sorry for the Greeks. They elected a government that is behaving in a rather irresponsible at the time,” said Finance Minister Schaeuble. “Greece – added the exponent of the Merkel government – must understand that you can not live beyond its means and continue to make proposals on how others should pay even more.”
But Tsipras has other plans in mind: his idea is “a solution where everyone can only win”, a “win-win solution,” says the German weekly, it spends sweet words for its current major antagonist: Chancellor Angela Merkel is “a very kind woman,” not at all “severe as one would expect from what is described in the press.”
The premier tends the greek hand to Germany also distancing himself from the cartoon depicting the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, in Nazi uniform, calling it “unfortunate”. Nevertheless, he said, that the talks today will be “very difficult”, although it remains the basic trust.
Meanwhile, the European Commission continues to support the solution of an extension of the plan . “We are ready to engage, but it is clear that everyone must respect the commitments, the only realistic solution is the extension of the plan to give us more time for negotiations,” said Vice President of the EU Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis entering Eurogroup . “We want an agreement as soon as possible, but need a signal from the greek government which must apply for the extension and that is committed to completing the program,” he added. “An extension of the program is the best thing to have time to think about a new program,” echoed the French finance minister, Michel Sapin entering the eurogroup. “This solution, which France supports, it is a good solution that enables security and time,” he added.
The negotiations, although all prefer to speak of exchange of views or meetings at the technical level, continued throughout the weekend on the basis of the different texts submitted by the individual parts, but the positions remain far apart. Greece is not going to continue on the path of the current aid program, because it considers, as explained by the spokesman of the government, “unrealistic” expectations of a budget surplus of 3% in 2015 and 4.5% in 2016.
But the face of the other European countries seems to rally around Germany. The Financial Times reports that Ireland would have also taken a hard line, while France, by the mouth of his foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, says it is prepared to negotiate on the maturity of the debt, “but its cancellation is out of the question “. Meanwhile, the ECB president, Mario Draghi, pointing out that the policy of the central bank does not punish the Germans and not reward the weaker countries, prefers not to speak in detail of the situation in Athens, but stressed that “it makes no sense to speculate on a possible leaving the single currency. “
After the clash last night in consumatosi Eurogroup (between the need to ‘extend’ or ‘amend’ the current program of the Troika), the European finance ministers will sit again around a table to see how to match the needs of the greek government to put an end to austerity that is folding the country with those creditors who want certainty about debt repayment. Athens, which intends to open the chasing evaders placing the lighthouse on the flow of € 30 billion that has shifted from Greek banks to those in Switzerland, puts on the plate reducing the budget surplus for this and next year in the face of structural reforms “We want to reduce the positions of privilege” in the world of work and pensions, “but do not want to clash with the people,” added the spokesman of the government, which welcomed the new descent of 15,000 people in the square in the center of Athens . An event called “spontaneous” against Austerity imposed by the Troika.
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