Greece, Eurogroup calls for more reforms to start talks – Reuters Italy

BRUSSELS / ATHENS (Reuters) – Ministers of European finance are meeting today in Brussels to decide whether to negotiate a third rescue program for Greece, in a meeting that promises still long and that could result in the postponement of a decision at the EU summit of heads of state and government scheduled tomorrow.

After the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has given the green light by your Parliament to propose a series of austerity measures, those same measures that his party had been elected to prevent, the EU officials predict that an agreement will be reached by the end of the weekend to save Greece, but not before the ministers and leaders of various governments have given vent to their anger at the greek prime minister.

On arrival Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said he expected a long meeting of the Eurogroup, without a final decision: “We are not here to finish negotiations tonight but to see if there are conditions for a negotiated important, “he told reporters.

The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has anticipated that the negotiations will be “extraordinarily difficult”, highlighting that confidence towards Greece “was destroyed in an incredible way in recent months.”

Other ministers, arriving at the meeting in Brussels, have highlighted the problem of lack of confidence after years of broken promises and the calling of the referendum surprise.

“NO ONE SPOKE OF Grexit”

According to sources in the euro zone, the Eurogroup ministers said Athens must do more than the package of proposed reforms that he presented, if wants to open negotiations on the bailout.

A government source has greek however, it pointed out that the German Schaeuble has suggested the possibility of so-called Grexit, as he instead wrote the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. More …