difficult dialogue. The German Minister Schauble and his Greek couple Varoufakis, during one of the negotiation rounds. On Friday, a framework agreement was signed with the Eurogroup.
The Greek government yesterday gave final to a reform program to be presented today at the European authorities and the IMF strokes . If approved by the “troika” of creditors of Greece, Athens will renew emergency funding it receives from 2010. On Friday, both sides reached a framework agreement in principle extending the current aid program until June. But there was set today Athens must submit accurate tax measures. Athens proposals would be based on a combination of tax savings and punish evaders. The leftist government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tried to present the agreement as a victory against fierce Europe, but obviously had to yield at central points and sit down with the “troika”, which formerly reviled. “Athens was run ten miles, no one mile,” admitted Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis after trading Friday in Brussels with the Eurogroup, the union of the 19 ministers in the financial area of the countries that share the euro as a common currency .
The Greeks reacted with relief to the agreement on Friday, since it prevents a crisis of the financial system seemed imminent. The agreement means that Tsipras met at least one promise: to keep the country within the euro zone, according analyzed yesterday the news agency Reuters. Possibly it will be much more than that, according to the German news agency DPA, for it is a fact that the Greeks had to “swallow toads”. Greece met in Brussels with a wall before your claim of not accepting the commitments required for an extension of aid. That’s when the admission of Varoufakis came: “Athens was run ten miles, no”. On Friday, the president of the Eurogroup, Dutchman Jeroen Dijsselbloem, introduced the Greeks a document with demands of the troika of creditors, in a telephone conversation with Tsipras, it was made clear: it’s this or nothing
<. p align = "justify"> Tsipras still enjoys popular support despite having had to make concessions. Under the agreement, Greece will abocándose the terms of bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, a few weeks ago he promised to leave behind, and should negotiate a new program for early summer. In other words, far from the “victory” proclaimed by Tsipras Saturday against the Greek media, the Greek government had to accept an extension of the current adjustment program with the “troika” (EU-European Central Bank and IMF), which Tsipras and Varoufakis left for dead and qualified as “illegal” a few weeks ago, during a tour of European capitals.
The Varoufakis minister said that commitments to reforms would be ready and would be delivered to time members of the EU and the IMF. “We hope that the list will be approved by the institutions and we can embark on a new phase of stabilization and growth,” he said Saturday. An official said the reforms include measures against tax evasion and corruption, often linked to the former. In any case, greater tax savings and revenue measures seem the two teachers now be submitted to Brussels.
The government must resign to work with the troika, but try to take advantage of the low leeway given to it by its partners in the eurozone, considered AFP. “The European texts always have a creative imprecision” said Giorgos Katrougalos, Minister of Administrative Reform. For the French news agency AFP, Tsipras got the chance to present their own list of reforms to the Eurozone. Now wait a certain tolerance that allows rid of several obligations imposed by creditors, provided that the balance of public finances is preserved. “There are issues of sovereignty that depend on domestic policy and are non-negotiable,” warned yesterday the Minister of State Nikos Pappas, Tsipras right hand.
latent risk. Today, finally see the extent of the adjustment to which the government is willing SYRIZA, the coaliciónd of Tsipras and Varoufakis. There is a risk, warned DPA, that the Greek government on Friday interpret the agreement differently today creditors and present a list of reforms they deem unacceptable. The disagreement would lead to a further loss of confidence and eventually have to call a special summit of heads of state and government, which in fact had asked the Greeks before the meeting of the Eurogroup for the case of a failure of dialogue in Brussels Friday . But for now leaving the euro seems exorcised.
A historic rebels to Tsipras
Manaolis Glezos, MEP SYRIZA and living legend of the Greek left, criticized the agreement that the government of Alexis Tsipras came with the Eurogroup and called the supporters of the coalition to mobilize to express their disagreement. “The renaming of the” troika “to” institutions, “the memorandum” agreement “and the lenders ‘partners’ does not change the previous reality,” said Glezos on a blog.
Glezos requested “all members and supporters” of SYRIZA who decide “in extraordinary meetings at all levels of the organization”, if they accept the decision of the Executive. The leftist political emblematic stressed already spent a month since the election and has not yet made the promise of Syriza “to abolish the troika and rescue program.” Glezos is a living legend of the Greek left and national hero in the fight against the German occupation during World War II. With its 93 years, has a role in Syriza at the head of the formation Active Citizens, independent group that together with a group of anarchists, Trotskyists, Maoists, environmentalists and center-are the amalgamation of the coalition government.
Glezos apologized to Greek voters for them “partakers of illusion” of having a leftist government during the election campaign and urged them to react “before it’s too late.” Government sources said they Glezos “has no clear idea about the tough negotiations” with European partners. On Saturday, Alexis Tsipras said that “we have won a battle, not the war,” then the laborious agreement that arrived on Friday with its partners in the Eurogroup. “We did derail the plan of conservative forces to stifle our country,” said
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