Varufakis said the Greek plan on debt is less expensive … – Caracol Radio

Varufakis said the Greek plan on debt is less expensive … – Caracol Radio

Athens, Jan 31 (EFE) .- The Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varufakis, said today that the proposals of the Greek Government on debt have lower costs for European taxpayers that the current plan defending creditors.

In an interview with the local newspaper “Agora” Varufakis noted that “there is no problem to end the current bailout program” and try to renegotiate a new agreement with lenders.

“What we need is essentially a bridge between the old program, which declined and the new agreement that will occur after our negotiations,” he said.

Varufakis said that Greece needs “time, space and a break “to negotiate with creditors and reach a new agreement that allows” end the Greek problem and make the Greek social economy is sustainable “.

He stressed, however, that the commitments to “investors who have invested in the productive sector will remain intact.”

The Finance Minister said the February 28, the day that ends the program extension Greek bailout, “is a date arbitrary limit, the product of a political settlement of the previous government with partners (the troika of creditors formed by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund). “

Varufakis said the government has intended “to present a specific reform program, whose preparation is almost complete” for negotiations.

Yesterday’s meeting between Varufakis and Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem, where the Greek minister said the government does not recognize the troika as a valid interlocutor in the negotiations, although the organisms that compose, has created a major upset in Europe.

Therefore, Varufakis has advanced his trip to Paris, scheduled for Monday, where tomorrow he will meet with his counterpart, Michel Sapin.

The French authorities have organized these meetings in Paris with officials of the new Greek government to avoid a clash between their willingness to obtain a remission of his debt and negative, expressed with much vehemence other European partners.

Dijsselbloem already stressed in Athens to Brussels ruled the Greek proposal to hold an international conference on debt, as said, the conference “already exists and is called Eurogroup”.

So, it is expected that on Wednesday the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, meet with French President François Hollande, who last night attended a dinner with Chancellor Germany’s Angela Merkel and President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, in which they discussed the position of the new Greek government. EFE