What no longer works in the alliance between Putin and Tsipras – The Gazette

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Rome . The heads of state and government are meeting Monday in an emergency meeting to discuss options for last minute to eleven days after accounting failure of Greece. In five months of unsuccessful negotiations the greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has not offered credible margins of collaboration to its creditors (European Union, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank) is exacerbating the fiscal crisis of Athens is the flight of deposits from banks . Yet in this fatal juncture, after the director of the IMF Christine Lagarde – the “criminal in command”, according to the vision of the Greek representatives – it showed “extreme need to establish a dialogue with the adults in the room,” Tsipras What does? Meet Vladimir Putin at the annual economic forum in St. Petersburg at the time of maximum tension between Russia and the Western powers seeking to economic sanctions and military deterrence to limit the expansionist ambitions of the autocrat to Europe Southeast Asia.

RELATED PRODUCTS origin of shame (and the true vice) of Greece The near collapse greek reveals the menacing side of sharing debt The gesture recalled the kiss of the slipper (proskynesis) which sanctioned the submission to the pope of the Catholic monarchs, nobles and clergy; ancient practice already used to the Assyrian kings and Persian. “If they paid the provocations, Greece would have long ago a celestial wealth,” said Handelsblatt, the German daily newspaper of the establishment which, of course, considered sacred only the slipper Kanzlerin Angela Merkel. The leader of Syriza has a long association with the Russians – greek joined the Communist Party in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR – but the second visit to Putin in April has fueled suspicions that Athens can receive financial support to press on European Union to soften the sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine in Moscow? The Russian economy is weakened but the repercussions for Europe, also saw the embargo of Moscow at the European agri-food goods, may be more severe than expected from the EU Commission: according to a study by the Austrian Wifo think tank, published yesterday by European newspapers, are at risk 2 million jobs and 100 billion in exports of goods and services. However it is to see the effectiveness of mutual aid that Moscow and Athens can be. Tsipras is dancing the warm fronts EU using the geopolitical leverage to make promises but seems implausible even in the eyes of Putin. He says that “the vicious circle of Western sanctions must end as soon as possible” but the decision to extend them for another six months starting in August will probably be ratified next week by EU foreign ministers, says the New York Times, and especially in meeting Preliminary ambassadors of Greece has not vetoed.

Putin said that “if Greece needs financial assistance will examine the issue” but Moscow can not give much. “The problem [greek] is so vast that Russia can not afford to provide what is needed,” says a Russian banker in the Financial Times. In St. Petersburg, the Russian energy minister, Alexander Novak, and his counterpart greek Panagiotis Lafazanis, an irreducible Syriza, they have signed the agreement to establish the extent of Stream pipeline in Turkish territory greek money of Russian Development Bank The properties of the tubes will be shared. The United States had warned Athens, reluctant member of NATO in the age Syriza, from supporting the “pipeline politics” Putin, European Championship Tap competitor that passes from the Peloponnese and arrives in Puglia. The loose cannon Tsipras crosses into the Russian orbit, challenge the patience and American policy to support the Greeks opened in ’47 by Henry Truman. ->