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The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, near the Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Stathakis
President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, canceled the extraordinary summit of the 28 members of the European Union (EU) today provided this afternoon in Brussels to discuss the crisis in Greece.
Instead will be held the only summit of 19 heads of state and government of the euro area , Tusk announced in his Twitter account without giving further details or motives.
Sources Block explained that the cancellation is due to the arduous negotiations that have maintained the finance ministers of the Eurozone and the failure to agree on a third rescue package to prevent the bankruptcy of Greece .
“We need every effort to conclude the negotiations in the euro area time,” said a European diplomat in Brussels the agency dpa.
The negotiations of the finance ministers of the eurozone on Saturday night were discontinued after nine hours without agreement, in a meeting marked by controversy raised by the German choice Wolfgang Sch TM uble that Greece temporarily leaving the eurozone.
The Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Stathakis, flatly rejected the proposal Sch TM uble. It’s just a political ploy used to torpedo an agreement in the Eurogroup, Stathakis told Mega television station.
The Greek government accuses some EU member countries, without mentioning them by name, to search for the failure of negotiations on the austerity program and reforms in Athens.
Finance ministers negotiations continued today amid great skepticism. The possibility of an agreement “remains very difficult”, he stated the head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, even said “it is not possible to find an agreement today.”
Dijsselbloem explained that many countries do not trust the government of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, really implement the new list of reforms proposed this week to its international creditors.
More than ten of the 19 eurozone members are among the skeptics, as revealed by a source told dpa, with Austria, Finland and the Baltic countries among the most opposed to the agreement.
Athens calls for a new aid package for 74,000 million euros (82,000 million). Negotiations are carried out under pressure, because Greece must pay this month 4,200 million euros to its creditors with whom no account.
Greece has already received in the past five years international aid for 240,000 million euros. The new reform proposal presented by Athens to creditors includes increases of value added tax and delaying the retirement age to 67 years by 2022.
The Greek Minister of Economy, Stathakis, He noted that by the time restrictions on capital movements remain, even with the Eurogroup agreement on a new rescue package is achieved.
The restrictions primarily affect cash withdrawals and transfers of money abroad. At the same time, Stathakis said the government never analyzed removes make a bank deposit.
In reaching an agreement on a new aid program for Athens, banks may open soon. “The traffic of capital between businesses could be the first thing to liberate” the Mega TV said the minister told.
Also they could quickly lift the restrictions for exports and tourism.
In Greece, banks are closed for a week. The Greeks can only withdraw cash in a maximum of 60 euros per day
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