Monito Brussels to Tsipras. “There is no ” Plan B ‘to save you” – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

Monito Brussels to Tsipras. "There is no " Plan B 'to save you" – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

23:50 February 17, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, February 17 – There is no “Plan B” prepared by Brussels in the event that Greece will not be decided in the coming days, a request the extension of the financial aid program . To emphasize that “there is no alternative” – ​​as they had already ‘said last night, after the Eurogroup meeting in which Athens has rejected a draft agreement which provided for the extension of the program for six months, the President Jeroen Dijsselbloem and the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici – we thought today, while it was in progress the Ecofin Council meeting, also the spokesman of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas .

Arriving at a meeting devoted to other topics, or investment and the European semester , also Finance Minister English George Osborne expressed concern defining “very serious” the possible consequences of a failure to agree.
“We’re going to get to the rupture between Greece and Eurozone – said Osborne in Brussels – are here to urge the parties to quickly find a solution “to avoid risks. The British have taken steps to develop a protection plan , he added, but they want to “see competence, and not chaos.”

On the greek, in Brussels Minister Yannis Varoufakis shows accommodating and insists on the need ‘to an agreement .
Emphasizes that “in Europe we know how to proceed to find a good solution starting from an initial disagreement “, agreed already ‘yesterday that Greece is and will’ always be part of the Euro because ” Europe and ‘indivisible’. In Athens instead Tsipras returns to define “unacceptable” a compromise that does not take into account the demands of the voters of Syriza. But, reassures Minister Pier Carlo Padoan , between Eurogroup and Greece “ dialogue remains open and I think constructive: I hope that will be ‘finalized soon,” although he admits, the yesterday’s meeting ” was itself ‘not very useful: but’ from that meeting, the dialogue continues in a very constructive “.

As for Germany, the Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that the permanence of Greece in the Euro just depends Athens : “It makes no sense – he said at the end of Ecofin – to speculate on what might happen if the Greek bailout was not completed in an orderly manner “but if” we will face a difficult situation. ” “ Germany wants the Eurogroup remains united , everyone must do their part,” he concluded.
Ready replication Athens: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Finance Minister Schaeuble of he had “lost his temper” and to have pronounced sentences that “harm” Greece.

“You can not ‘- says the prime minister – treat us as a colony or as a pariah in Europe.” “We have sent a clear message to Europe – he added – that we will avoid the trap of austerity ‘and do it”. “The negotiation is not dependent on technocrats but by European political leaders,” he warned.
Meanwhile, in the evening and ‘spread the hypothesis that the greek government would be directing it toward a request for extension of six months of the aid program. This was revealed by the agency Bloomberg, citing sources close to the executive Hellenic. The terms of the request, however, remain uncertain.