Greece will pray in debt dispute with its euro partners According to inside information about an extension of the current credit agreement for up to six months. Athens wants to submit the application on Wednesday, said a person familiar with the plans person in Brussels. The conditions were still under negotiation. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had previously refused to extend the subject to certain conditions complete reform assistance program, which ends on 28 February
The Prime Minister explicitly differentiates between the entire program and the credit agreement in particular.
The Greek conservative newspaper “Kathimerini” wrote, citing government sources that the application should be made on Wednesday and that the extension should extend to six months. The private Greek TV station Mega reported as well, Finance Minister Giani Varoufakis told the Greek journalists in Brussels.
A few questions so far unsettled
Open initially remained the important question of whether Athens will accept the previously agreed requirements of international lenders and whether the euro partners at all satisfied with the application. They insist on an extension of the entire aid program, which ends on 28 February. This rejects the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras from before because he keeps associated with the reform program requirements for unacceptable. He distinguishes explicitly between the entire program and the credit agreement in particular.
After words of Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling (ÖVP), the opportunities to remain in Greece in the euro zone have improved. “The signals are more positive than on Monday, it will be settled in permanence,” he told the “Courier”. Whether there will be renewed negotiations with the finance ministers of the euro zone on Friday, he left open. “That depends on what Greece offers and whether the ideas of the Greeks for the other 18 countries are acceptable,” Schelling is quoted.
Abrupt change of course
In an interview with n-tv said Theodoros Paraskevopoulos, the economic policy adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece Tsipras nor that you will ask in any case for an extension of the aid program: “The program is economically failed in the elections in Greece, it is also politically failed. Such a program we will not extend “.
In the financial markets, however, the information has been received. The euro rose against the dollar. The US stock markets reduced their losses.
The Euro finance ministers had failed on Monday evening, to resolve the conflict with the supported of left- and right-wing populists Greek government. They put the Greeks have until the end of the week to extend the expired in eleven days bailout program for a few months
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(APA / Reuters / Red.)
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