Tsipras: “Ready to compromise difficult just to get out of the crisis” – BBC

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Milan , June 13, 2015 – 13:47

     
     
 

Talks on Greece will continue Sunday” at the highest technical level. ” He revealed to the DPA the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after today’s meeting in Brussels between a delegation of the Greek government, which has presented new proposals for reforms, and emissaries of the EU executive. The premier greek Alexis Tsipras’ knows that the situation has reached a critical point “and is aware that Greece’s exit from the euro would have” devastating consequences “, said Juncker: and it is the same greek prime minister to confirm that Athens is prepared to conclude a “difficult compromise” with its creditors, even if it means accepting new concessions. “If we get to a workable agreement, although it will be a difficult compromise, we are ready to accept the challenge, because it is the only way out of the crisis.”

Varoufakis: “Pensions do not touch”

But what might these concessions? According to Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis the request of the International Monetary Fund to reform the pension system in Greece is “ridiculous.” “He ‘s the kind of proposal that one puts on the table when it does not want to reach an agreement,” the minister added in an interview with BBC Radio Four after that two days ago the IMF had described as “unsustainable” the pension system Athens. For Varoufakis it is a position “breaking” that “you should just let it go.”

check average and age

IMF spokesman Gerry Rice had said in recent days that the pension system is not sustainable because greek ‘in this country people are retiring seven years before in Germany, and average pensions are almost equal. ” The technicians in Athens reminded that the average pension of state is of 664.69 Euros per month and that the supplementary pension stops at 168.40 euro average, adding that 44.6% of pensioners live below the poverty line, fixed at 665 € monthly. However sources in Athens acknowledged that the average check is close to that German. Even on the average age of retirement engineers have wanted to correct the IMF spokesman, noting that the age for men is 63 years and is the same that is in Germany, while only for women is no difference ( 59 instead of 62 years in Germany). Since the signing of the first rescue program, in 2010, until 2013, the Greek pension checks decreased on average by 44.2% and 48% considering the public sector alone.

Eurogroup Thursday in Brussels

Meanwhile, the premier greek Alexis Tsipras has sent a delegation to Brussels with a new set of proposals to creditors. The goal is to reduce the differences of pensions, taxes and primary surplus in view of the Eurogroup on Thursday in Luxembourg. But the confrontation between Greece and the creditors’ will not end with the release “of Athens from the euro, said Finance Minister Greek Yanis Varoufakis always the BBC. “I believe that no reasonable politician wants to take that road,” and “I think that Angela Merkel has not even begun to contemplate a Greek exit.” One answer, therefore, to rumors, denied by the same Merkel on Friday gave the Grexit as unavoidable in Berlin. Peter Praet, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank confirmed Saturday in an interview with the Austrian newspaper “der Standard”: “The Governing Council of the ECB wants Greece to remain a member country” del’Eurozona.

June 13, 2015 | 13:47

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