ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek politicians reacted nervously to concessions that Athens has made in negotiations on debt and Parliament Vice-President, Alexis Mitropoulos, has warned of a possible rejection, watering down the optimism for a early signing of the agreement with the creditors.
The bags seem to believe the happy ending of the negotiations: the European stocks extended gains from the previous session and touched the maximum of three weeks on the hope that the agreement is at hand. The euro instead lost ground on fears that the opposition of the Greek parliament may prove harder than expected.
Elected in late January with a campaign based on the end of the austerity program imposed by creditors, the leader of Syriza Alexis Tsipras must ensure the support of its parliamentary group to push through any new measures economic and fiscal policy.
Some of Syriza leaders have expressed outrage source Tsipras offering to raise some taxes and contributions for pensions and the health system and one of them said that the agreement is the “tomb” of Greece.
” I believe that this program, as we see it now … will hardly approved by parliament, “Mitropoulos said in ‘Mega TV’.
The statements by the Vice-Chancellor of Germany Sigmar Gabriel, warned that Greece that creditors would not have made blackmail, they showed how much progress on the agreement remain fragile. A European Commission spokesman stressed that Athens has to put on paper what action before being awarded new funds.
If the greek parliament is not able to approve the agreement, Tsipras might be forced to call early elections or a referendum.
At present the outlines of the final deal are not clear. The Eurogroup should meet again to approve the reform package tomorrow night.
On the site www.reuters.it other news Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com/reuters_italia
© Thomson Reuters 2015 All assigns rights to Reuters.
No comments:
Post a Comment