Greece and its creditors “have never been so close to an agreement” and close it is just a matter of political will: it refers to reporters an official of the Greek Government, that the distance on the goal of primary surplus in 2015 (0.25% of GDP) is so low that unimaginable a break.
The negotiations at the technical level between Greece and creditors’ are over, “said a representative of Athens to Bloomberg, reiterating that Greece “will not accept cuts in wages and pensions,” but points to “a lower primary surplus and debt restructuring.” Negotiations, he said, will continue at the political level.
“I have said in recent days, where there is a will there is a way. But the will must come from all sides, “said Angela Merkel, in Berlin, about the negotiations with Athens. “It is right that we continue to talk with each other, again and again,” added the Chancellor in the passage of the speech devoted to the negotiations with Athens.
“Now Angela Merkel is preparing for a Grexit “he writes the German newspaper Bild today instead. “On the other last night,” the chancellor would feel that “it was all in vain.” According to Bild, after two hours of negotiations in Brussels with Alexis Tsipras and Francois Hollande, Merkel would eventually realize that bankruptcy is probably inevitable. “Closed, finished Grexit …” writes Bild.
“Our attitude has not changed. We work to ensure that Greece remains a member of the eurozone, “said German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, responding to a question about rumors of Bild.
Meanwhile, leaders of Syriza, the leftist party of Prime Minister Tsipras , are preparing the party colleagues and the Greeks to the possibility that the government will have to sign an agreement with creditors that will not be considered favorably by some members of parliament or by voters. “It is a compromise, we can not hide it,” said the parliamentary spokesman of SYRIZA. The EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker of the rest has made it clear to the greek prime minister that his willingness to negotiate with the creditors is literally running out.
“As long as the greek people will support the government’s efforts, the Government will continue to support the just demands of the people greek “he said Tsipras talking to journalists of state Ert hosting the radio and television station closed two years ago by the government Samaras and recently reopened at the behest of the government. “In this way – he added Tsipras – you can reach an agreement with creditors that will not only be an agreement but a solution that will maintain social cohesion, will offer growth prospects and, at the same time, solve the problem of financing the medium the end of the country and therefore can create the conditions for debt sustainability greek. ” When asked how the negotiations are proceeding with creditors, Tsipras said that “we are fighting and negotiating every day.”
“Unlike so many rumors, we have never gambled,” says Finance Minister greek, Yanis Varoufakis, in a tweet which adds a link to an article he wrote in The New York Times, last February, where he denied that it will apply the “game theory” which he taught at the Universities in negotiations debt.
Meanwhile, Greece is increasingly alone: the IMF leaves the negotiating table in Brussels and back to Washington, convinced that an agreement is very far and frustrated by the complete lack of progress in the negotiations . The nodes, from pensions to the surplus, are still intact and the new confrontation between the prime minister Tsipras and the President of the European Commission does not need to break the deadlock. Even Europe is tired, and the EU president, Donald Tusk, puts new pressure on the Greek Government requesting it to do away with the “gambling” and to be “more realistic” because someone may soon call ” game over. “
” You can not interpret the decision of the IMF as a withdrawal from the negotiations, I believe that a solution is necessary, I spent much time with Tsipras yesterday and I expect to elapse in the coming days ” , pointed Juncker today.
“Without the IMF for us is not imaginable a solution,” said Martin Jager, spokesman for the Minister of Finananze Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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