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This article was published on July 1, 2015 at 11:39.
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The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, would send a new letter to creditors where it shows available give in on a number of conditions, but asked for some changes. This is what the Financial Times online.

“The Hellenic Republic is ready to accept this technical agreement with the following amendments, additions and clarifications, as part of an extension of the program of the new EFSF and ESM loan for which the request was made today, on June 30, “reads the letter of Tsipras two pages dating back to last night. It will include further details on the Greek request for a new bailout, through the European fund ESM, from € 29.1 billion.

Athens – according to the letter reported by Ft – accept the entire system of VAT reform subject to a discount of 30% for the Greek islands. The prime minister says he is ready even to the pension reform as requested by creditors, except to postpone to October, instead of immediately, the departure date of raising the retirement age gradually (expected in 67 years by 2022). Finance ministers will discuss at 17.30 Eurogroup in Brussels. The Commission “are making a preliminary examination of the requests of the greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and the Euro Group will present its findings,” said Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, who spoke of “opening to discuss the debt” by the economic ministers of ‘Union.

Berlin, however, slows sharply: “No negotiations on new aid before the referendum in Greece,” insists the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who argues that Athens “has not fully complied with its obligations “, even if” the negotiations with Greece remains open. ” The chancellor says that “there is a good European who seeks compromise at all costs, but who wants if the benefits outweigh the costs.” “At the moment – said Merkel – the new request of support come from Athens is irrelevant and must be voted upon by the Bundestag.” For Chancellor crisis in Greece “does not put at risk the future of Europe” but “the game is important and the world is watching.”

The same opinion by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in a meeting with the press: the letter from the greek prime minister “does not help to make more clear,” adding that Athens’ must say what they want ». Negotiations with Greece can not return to the “status quo, we are in a completely new situation.” Schaeuble also argues that talk before refererendum announced by the Greek government “does not make sense.”

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