Several ministers had indicated that they could not work on a specific document, failing agreement in previous talks between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and creditors of the country, the EU and the IMF.
BRUSSELS The Eurogroup meeting on Greece ended without agreement Wednesday in Brussels and will continue on Thursday at 11H00 GMT, announced the president of the forum, Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
“We have not reached an agreement. But we are determined to continue working to do what is necessary,” said the Dutch minister to leave the meeting, which lasted just over an hour.
“Now we leave the meeting for later and will meet again tomorrow at one in the afternoon,” said Dijsselbloem, confirming ahead of his Finnish colleague Alexander Stubb.
Several ministers had indicated that no they could work on a specific document, failing agreement in previous talks between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and creditors of the country, the EU and the IMF.
Before the Eurogroup, Tsipras is He met Wednesday for more than six hours with the IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, the ECB president, Mario Draghi, and the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
Its aim was to bring positions on a series of reforms, to reach an agreement that would allow Athens to receive fresh money and pay the IMF on June 30 some 1,500 million euros.
Several sources confirmed that negotiations are being “difficult “.
A Greek government source described as” bad words “counterproposals presented Wednesday by their partners, but” negotiations continue “, said the government.
Tsipras Juncker Dijsselbloem and Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, as well as the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici were to meet again Wednesday night at 23H00 (21H00 GMT), according to a European source.
The finance ministers of the eurozone are intended to seal the technical discussions of the parties, and submit an agreement to the leaders of the common currency to give its approval.
The heads of state and euro government will discuss Greece’s EU summit scheduled on Thursday and Friday in Brussels.
mfh
No comments:
Post a Comment