Greece: Juncker ‘nothing new’ to Tsipras, the rules “- AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

13:15 June 7, 2015

(AGI) – Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany), June 7 . – The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has denied having received a new proposal from Alexis Tsipras to solve the debt crisis greek and invited him to respect the rules. “The premier greek has not presented any alternative proposal, I hope to do so in the near future,” he said at a press conference before the G7 summit in Bavaria. Then the former Luxembourg Prime Minister replied to Tsipras that Friday ‘had described as “absurd” the conditions imposed by creditors in Athens: the premier greek and’ a friend, he assured, “but to be friends you must meet certain minimum standards.”

The President of the Commission reiterated that Athens exit from the euro is not ‘an option but warned that this does not mean that “we can pull a rabbit of the hat” to resolve the crisis. Then he warned that the negotiations can not go on indefinitely: “Certainly there will be ‘a deadline for Greece, but not revealed, not to make it more’ exciting but to make sure that Greece is not penalized” he explained.
Juncker explained that the next meeting should be held Wednesday Tsipras’ next in Brussels, on the sidelines of the summit with Latin American countries.

Varoufakis says’ no ‘to the EU proposals, “made to terrorize”

Greece and’ determined to dismiss the latest EU proposals on the crisis debt. “It ‘was an aggressive move made to terrorize the government greek”, denounced the Minister of Finance Greek Yanis Varoufakis, the newspaper Proto Thema. “This government greek not afraid,” he assured. Last week the European Commission presented to Greece with a five-page list of proposals including an increase in VAT and cuts in public wages and pensions.

“I do not think there is much room for a positive agreement with creditors,” the uproar Energy Minister greek, the Eurosceptic Panagiotis Lafazanis.
“Probably trying to submit, they want to demolish the country socially and humiliate the government, “he added speaking with the weekly To Vima.