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This article was published on July 1, 2015 at 20:50.
The last change is the July 2, 2015 at 10:01.
Ore high voltage for Greece and the future of the eurozone, two days after the failure payment of 1.55 billion to the IMF, in the June 30 deadline. The day before yesterday was also the date of expiry of the second aid plan to the Mediterranean country, burdened with more than 300 billion in debt. Conditions to extend and complete the plan, allowing the delivery of 7.2 billion euro, grounding and failed negotiations between Athens and its creditors (EU, IMF, ECB). At the end of Wednesday there’s a new downgrade by Moody’s (after S & amp; P’s and Fitch), which downgraded the sovereign rating to greek Caa3 from Caa2. Even the agency DBRS has decided to downgrade Greece further to CC, as a result of non-repayment of the installment due on the debt to the IMF. DBRS but does not expect a Grexit triggers a general downgrade of the other European countries with high debt.
Tsipras: we do not accept blackmail
In the afternoon the Prime Minister greek Alexis Tsipras, after his last proposal had been rejected by creditors, confirmed, in a speech to nation, a referendum next Sunday and has argued for the rejection of the plan of the former Troika: “The no is a decisive step for a better deal which we aim Monday, after the referendum,” he said. “The Greeks can not accept blackmail. This situation will not last for long. Wages and pensions will not get lost. For our part we will try to reject what the memorandum asks us, we will try to do everything possible in order to have better conditions, more positive, “he concluded the Prime Minister on television, assuring that his government” remains at the negotiating table “and “Eurogroup will respond immediately if there is a positive result.”
The Eurogroup position
The economic ministers of the Eurozone, the well-founded position Tsipras, they decided to await the outcome of Greferendum, as it was renamed on social networks, before making any further discussion with the Greek government. “There are elements for further negotiations at this point. There will be talks in the coming days on proposals for financial arrangements. Wait for the outcome of the referendum and we will take action, “she wrote the president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, in a statement at the end of the conference call extraordinary. “There is room for an extension of the program” of financial aid to Greece after the overcoming of the terms of yesterday, clarified Dijsselbloem. Although the prime minister, Renzi, the referendum told the German television ZDF hope “to the last that we can avoid, even if now is not easy.”
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