The pressure from European politicians for the Greeks to vote “yes” in the referendum held on the economic conditions of creditors continued today, a day after the consultation is held.
The president of the European Parliament, the Social Democrat Martin Schulz, said in a statement that includes the Sunday Welt am Sonntag that the government has left the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, who has led the country to a dead end, “but that people are not to blame.”
According to Schulz, “the insurance situation will not improve” if the people reject the referendum this Sunday reform plans of the creditor institutions-the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Central Bank ( ECB) and the European Commission (EC) – because the Greek government runs out of money.
“No new money, can not pay wages, the health system no longer works, electricity supply and public transport collapse and you can not import goods necessary because nobody can afford” he said.
The president of the European Socialist Party (PES, English), Sergei Stanishev, has asked the Greeks who “do not give back to Europe.”
“On Sunday the Greek exercised their democratic right. I sincerely hope that doing so will not turn their backs on Europe”, he said in a statement the president of the PES.
“As we approach the time of the referendum in Greece, I want to repeat my message loud and clear. The images we have seen in Greece in recent days have been painful for all Europeans. People queuing for hours are pensioners, mothers and European fathers, “said Stanishev.
The president of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), Klaus Regling, said he expected a “positive outcome” of the referendum.
“There is much uncertainty now about the future of Greece. I want that Greece is part of the Eurozone and therefore expect a positive result in this difficult process,” Regling said in an interview with the Greek daily Kathimerini .
Regling said that if he wins the ‘no’ “there are doubts about the implementation of the necessary reforms” for the country, adding that “to implement a program that creates a government in implementing necessary tough measures “.
The Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling, said he was confident a “negotiated solution” to the Greek crisis but ensures that a euro exit that country would be “easily manageable” for Europe.
In an interview published today by the Vienna daily “Die Presse”, Schelling believes that if you leave the “no” in the referendum tomorrow, will be more difficult to reach agreement.
“Our biggest problem is not the content (of the Greek proposals) but the destruction of any trust between Greece and the other countries in the euro zone,” he says.
The incumbent German Finance Wolfgang Schäuble, stressed that the decision to continue or not belonging to the euro depends on the Greek people, while he was convinced that the European Union (EU) will emerge stronger from the crisis.
“Greece is a member of the eurozone, there is no doubt that if in euro or temporarily not. That question be answered only the Greeks themselves,” the minister told the newspaper “Bild”.
At the same time, Schäuble said that “a community can only work if its members play by the rules”.
The negotiations take place after the referendum and once expired the previous program will be carried out “on a totally new basis and in more difficult economic conditions” and “this will take time.”
These statements are joining those made yesterday by the President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, who said that if the Greeks vote for the “no” in the referendum next Sunday Greece will be ” radically weakened “.
“Even if there is a ‘yes’, we would face a difficult negotiation.” In the case of ‘no’, the position of Greece is radically weakened, “Juncker said at a press conference on the launch of the Luxembourg rotating presidency of the European Union (EU).
The French minister Economy Emmanuel Macron, reiterated today the idea of his Government that the called morning by the Executive Alexis Tsipras referendum is legitimate, but there is a lack of “democratic openness” at the time and in the question.
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