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This article was published April 24, 2015 at 11:11.
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There is, in an atmosphere free of high expectations, the meeting in Riga of Eurogroup finance ministers which is to assess the progress of the talks with Athens in view of the delivery of the last tranche of aid to Greece. Some of the participants did not hide their frustration at the slow pace of negotiations between Greece and creditors, while Athens is increasingly short of cash.

The ‘hawks’ do not hide irritation
“Simply we are losing too much time” has recognized the Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling on his arrival in the Latvian capital. “I’m a little irritated, you can not go on like this. You have to make decisions, “he added. Along the same lines the Slovak counterpart Peter Kazimir that – admitting that they ‘almost no hope for Today “- he also acknowledged being” a little tired of this question: we talk, we talk and no result ” . For its part, the Lithuanian Rimantas Sadzius noted: “I think all my colleagues are disappointed, but we can not do everything alone: ​​we also need that the other party agrees to fund and provide some results.”

Varoufakis: “No recipes that have already failed,”
But Varoufakis reiterates that Europe must abandon “a recipe that has already failed”
Without too many expectations of even the “hawk” Wolfgang Schaeuble that looked like today, “probably all we will say that the time is running out, and that it is important to make progress.” The only silenced his arrival in Riga, just the main protagonist, the Finance Minister greek Yanis Varoufakis who has refused to answer questions from journalists but noted in a new post on his blog that “the current differences with Our partners are not insurmountable. “

At the same time Varoufakis reiterated confidence in the recipes proposed by European interlocutors, stressing that – adottandole – Athens would fall into a” tappola from austerity “: hence the invitation to “give up an approach that has failed,” the fact of “new cuts in wages and pensions.” Yesterday Premier greek Tsipras had had a confrontation in Brussels with German Chancellor Angela Merkel who had spoken of a “constructive conversation” urging to “do everything to avoid” the failure of Athens. But in the same hour the European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen stressed how trust between Athens and its creditors will be eroded. In Greece – said – “Today is very difficult to understand what is happening and this is not a good thing, because you can not negotiate if you do not trust” of your interlocutor. “The authorities must take decisive action,” he added.

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