Rome, May 10 (La Presse) – Eve without worries for the Eurogroup tomorrow in Brussels, yet another meeting of finance ministers of the 19 euro zone countries devoted to Greece, in the hundred-odd days of Tsipras government took office after the general election of January 25.
According to European sources, the goal for tomorrow is limited and political recognition of the efforts to reach a Greek step that Athens hopes will allow the ECB to release liquidity, raising the cap on emissions Hellenic short, or by restoring the exemption allowing in Frankfurt to give direct loans to Greek banks, suspended since February.
That will create conditions to continue the talks, and the anxiety that the coffers of Athens remain empty. Despite some optimism brand Greek, EU sources agree in that “still need time for a deal”: the Dutch Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Eurogroup president, admits that progress has been made in recent days, in Negotiations in Brussels almost “non stop” and in a series of bilateral agreements but excludes tomorrow.
And the French Minister Michel Sapin, after seeing Thursday colleague greek Yanis Varoufakis, has dampened the impetus optimistic that the agreement will not be tomorrow, but in the days ahead. Varoufakis, however, spoke of “shared many points” and “imminent agreement.” Identical dialectic there had been after the meeting between the Minister and the Italian Pier Carlo Padoan connects greek.
In fact, the Union paved the greek debt restructuring, which is no longer a taboo, But only after – Dijsselbloem- precise agreement on the completion of the program. And, finally, Varoufakis has run resigned to put the horizon agreement “within two weeks”, ie by the end of the month. Although many in Brussels would be pleased that this negotiation would end later, and maybe to coincide with the European summit on 25 and 26 June will conclude the six-month rotating presidency of Latvia.
Of course, the statements relaxing, even in the last hours, you have become intertwined with other more stinging. In the Athens metro continue for weeks to be disseminated video urging Germany to reparations; and the German Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble repeated that if Greece were to leave the euro and sink, “will not be the fault of Germany”. In a kind of ping pong undiplomatic, Euclid Tsakalotos, the new chief negotiator of Greece, the deputy foreign minister with whom, according to some interpretations, the premier Tsipras would “police” Varoufakis, calls on the EU and the IMF International to concretely demonstrate the political intention of wanting a debt agreement.
To make it less tense climate of the meeting tomorrow, it contributes to the publication, in the week by the European Commission’s economic forecast spring, giving the EU and the eurozone and growth in Italy to confirm that a gradual recovery (+ 0.6% of GDP this year, with the deficit under control and a slight decline in unemployment triggered by the jobs act ). EU figures are substantially the same as those of ISTAT, confirming the end of the three years of Italian recession, with GDP growth of 0.7% this year, of? 1.2% next year and 1 , 3% in 2017.
The Eurogroup and ECOFIN tomorrow Tuesday – the meeting of finance ministers of the 28 – will then take place in a relatively peaceful, compared to other similar recent meetings while they are still strong echoes ‘Europeans’ many statements made to coincide with the Festival of Europe yesterday, May 9.
In Italy, the president Sergio Mattarella said that “the EU It needs a change of course, less austerity and stop the selfishness at work and immigration, because they serve more and more integration values ”. And Prime Minister Matteo Renzi noted that “there is need for Europe in the World”, even though the Union, which has finally combined flexibility in rigor, grows less of its partners in the Global world.
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