Athens. – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras listed, upon his arrival in Brussels on Monday the “key agreement” with creditors, neither budget surplus “excessive” or reduction pension, or rise of electricity, and the restoration of “normal” labor law.
“We came to achieve economically viable agreement,” Tsipras said before meeting with the country’s creditors (EU , ECB, IMF), according to a statement broadcast services, reported AFP
The Greek prime minister, according to this source, made the list of the “keys” of the agreement. “leave behind surpluses Excessive primary (without payment of the debt, Editor’s note), preserve wages and pensions, avoid excessive and unreasonable increases in electricity (…), restore normalcy in labor relations and promote structural reforms (…) to redistribute the costs, and the fight against tax evasion and corruption. “
After five months of negotiations, the main actors of the Greek crisis meet Monday Two meetings in Brussels. A finance ministers followed by a summit of heads of state and government of the euro area in the afternoon
Greece’s creditors expect the country present a series of reforms to guarantee a loan tranche of 7,200 million euros –in suspended since months– and Athens, almost without liquidity urgently needed.
do not receive this stretch Greece I could not cope with a maturity of 1,500 million euros, due to the IMF before 30 June. And fall in default and would open a period of uncertainty for the whole euro area.
We want to “return to growth in the eurozone with social justice,” Tsipras said in a brief statement to the press by the President of the European Commission (EC), Jean-Claude Juncker, who received him at the headquarters of the EU executive.
“It is time for a substantial and viable solution,” the Greek prime minister .
Meanwhile, Juncker said that “we have made progress in recent days but we are not there yet,” referring to an agreement between Athens and its international creditors.
” I do not know if we will have an agreement today but will move surely toward an agreement, “he said.
Tsipras meets before the Eurogroup and the summit of eurozone leaders with Juncker, President of the European Central Bank ( ECB), Mario Draghi, represented the beginning of the meeting apparently by the executive board member Benoit Coeuré, the managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde and Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
The Ministers of Economy and Finance of the Eurozone will meet today from 10:30 GMT to prepare the subsequent extraordinary summit that the heads of state and government of the eurozone also held from 1700 GMT to To address the severe Greek financial situation and try to reach a solution that prevents, ultimately leaving the euro.
The morning meetings will be developed on the basis of the new proposal in AM by the Government of Greece to the creditor institutions and has been described as “good basis for progress” by Martin Selmayr, chief of staff Juncker, according to a message on his account Twitter.
According Selmayr, the new Greek proposal was delivered, in addition to Juncker and Draghi Lagarde, who make up the triad of international creditors.
The president of the Eurogroup said on arrival at the meeting the creditor institutions on the new proposal that “we have not yet evaluated”.
The EC, ECB and IMF on Sunday met to negotiate a solution for Greece, and the president of the EU executive spoke Tsipras phone, Merkel and Lagarde.
Also German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, spoke with Greek Prime Minister by telephone, according to diplomatic sources.
Regarding the eventual new proposal of the Greek Government, some of the measures leaked to the press show that while keeping the VAT rates proposed by Athens and its opposition to pension cuts, yes include concessions to try to reach common ground with creditors.
On June 30 the deadline for the second extension of rescue the country and Athens that day must pay 1,600 million euros to the IMF, that if you do not come down automatically in the default.
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