The Greek government expected to sign an energy agreement with Russian linked to the future pipeline “Turkish Stream” that would bring an advance payment next week between 3,000 and 5,000 million euros , according to the online edition of the German magazine “Der Spiegel”.
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Photo: EFE in Spanish
The publication, citing sources familiar with the negotiations in the direction of SYRIZA, the party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, hereby moves that The agreement is expected to be signed on Tuesday and allow Athens count short-term liquidity.
The payment would be an advance of future income that Greece would get as pipeline transit country to be constructed under the Black Sea to reach Russian gas to Europe and that it should be operational in 2019.
According to “Spiegel”, the basis of the negotiated pact in Moscow Tsipras and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, offered last April 8 to Tsipras join the Russian-Turkish pipeline “to turn Greece into a major European distribution centers energy “, and Greek Prime Minister said in the press conference after their bilateral meeting would consider the offer.
As reported yesterday the European Commission, international institutions and the Greek authorities intend to maintain this weekend a new meeting of the “Group of Brussels” to continue trying to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan of reforms before the informal Eurogroup to be held on the 24th in Riga.
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