Greece, Varoufakis flies to Washington by the IMF while Tsipras is … – The Daily

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In view of an increasingly crucial week in terms of the negotiations, the Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis will fly to Washington Sunday: by appointment in the evening with Christine Lagarde , director of the IMF and the next day with representatives of the US Treasury. The announcement of the visit – which will fall before the trip in Russian of the premier Tsipras Wednesday – came after Saturday morning the deputy minister of Finance, Dimitris Mardas at the end of a long night meeting, said in a ‘TV interview that Greece has the money to repay the loan of the International Monetary Fund 458 million euro maturing April 9 and also to respect other deadline next week.

The doubts of creditors, however, remain, particularly given the increasingly tense relations with the Sherpas and febrile Eurogroup in an attempt to close on time negotiations on reforms and release the last tranche of the international bailout 7.2 billion euro . Wednesday is scheduled a new meeting of the technicians, but to date there are deep concerns about list of reforms presented by Athens that as dense ( 72 measures distributed in 16 sectors ), appears too smoky on a key point as that of estimated revenue and the actual impact on the budget. Europe calls for more efforts mainly on cuts in pensions and civil service and more courage on privatization. And just to see replenished the coffers of Athens, comes to offer help to the Greek authorities to freeze the accounts of the great Dodgers . The proposal is on the table, said the Vice-Chancellor German Sigmar Gabriel to Reinische Post , but it is up to Greece to make the executive floor.

A sign that the negotiated between the EU and Athens is still on the high seas, while the premier Tsipras is preparing to play the card of Russia, with a visit to Putin April 8 and 9, in an attempt to ease the pressure of Brussels with the veiled threat of an alliance with Moscow that would undermine the European bloc of sanctions. A party game seen that Russia has already made it clear that Athens has not made economic demands. But even if Athens could overcome the week and to honor the IMF loan, remain short other heavy deadlines from the 2.4 billion redemptions of bonds expected in mid-April in addition to May 1 another billion IMF loan and other repayments of bonds for 2.8 billion.

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