BRUSSELS, Belgium, June. 21, 2015.- The President of the European Commission (EC), Jean-Claude Juncker, and the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, spoke by phone last night and keep in touch before the extraordinary summit of leaders of the euro countries convened for Monday to address the problem of Greek debt.
“Juncker and Tsipras spoke last night to take stock of the situation and agreed they would talk,” said EU sources.
When asked if they are aware of a new Greek proposal, they replied that they have “nothing” to say about the situation.
The Greek government is already preparing a new reform plan for reaching an agreement with EC creditor institutions, the European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) -. on Monday convened an emergency summit in Brussels
According to information of private Mega television, the new plan would maintain the three types of value added tax (VAT), 6.5%, 13% and 23%, as proposed by the Executive, unlike the two institutions defending, but this time would be willing to Athens change the taxation of certain foods or hotels to increase tax revenue.
As for pensions, which is next to the VAT one of the issues where there are major disagreements, the Government would be willing Tsipras abolishing early retirement from next year, saving about 200 million euros, and would consider reducing higher supplementary pensions of some officials.
Meanwhile, the Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varufakis has urged in an article published today by the German Sunday “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung” (FAS) to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to push a compromise with Athens eurozone and not follow “the sirens of his government” want to take the Greek government “overboard”.
Varufakis considered in this article that the future of Greece in the eurozone depends on the summit on Monday, while other European politicians are striving to subtracted expectations before it.
The Hellenic country has its empty coffers and suffers a capital outflow only in so far this week and amounted to 3,000 million euros.
Greece insists that the agreement with the creditor institutions must necessarily include debt restructuring and fiscal easing.
The next June 30 is the deadline for the second extension of rescue the country and Athens that day should do a payment of 1,600 million euros to the IMF.
The eurozone countries and international institutions and to speak openly of preparations for the event that Monday will not come to an agreement with Greece and pose a scenario in which the Greek state bankrupt and, in the worst case, leave the single currency.
BLR
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