Amsterdam .- The head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said Thursday that the differences between Greece and its creditors were reduced after discussions this week and Athens is expected to present alternatives to the proposals from lenders within days.
Greece is negotiating with the European Union (EU), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) for a budget reforms would release funds and help rescue the country avoiding a default and possible exit from the euro, Reuters reported.
The talks, which began in Brussels on Wednesday and ended after midnight, “succeeded in reducing differences on the outstanding issues,” Dijsselbloem said during a conference in Amsterdam.
However, Dijsselbloem said differences” remain very large “and warned that Greece make it impossible risked an agreement if it excluded many areas of reform.
An agreement “should make sense in economic terms, in budgetary terms. They recognize that. So it was a realistic game, “he said.
He added that pension reforms, a complicated issue for both Greeks and to European taxpayers who ultimately pay for the Greek rescue, I are on the negotiating table.
“I do not think anyone is excluding pension reforms but the question has more to do with how to make them,” he said.
Members of the Greek president’s own party Alexis Tsipras, the leftist Syriza, Thursday reacted angrily to the prospect of inclusion in any agreement pension reforms or tax increases after dinner Tsipras with Dijsselbloem and President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
Dijsselbloem suggested that was unlikely to be agreed on Friday to finance a solution Greek.
The Greek “look our proposals more carefully, will likely present some alternative proposals that they want,” Dijsselbloem said.
He declared that the parties would meet again “in a few days.” “If that can it be tomorrow, I do not know yet,” he said.
“There is no point sitting in a room together without having made any progress.”
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