February 11, 2015
Alexis Tsipras (r.) has won the confidence vote. Photo: AFP
The new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gets just before difficult negotiations with the Euro-states the backing of parliament in Athens. In a vote of confidence he received 162 of 300 votes in Parliament.
has Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shortly before the difficult negotiations with the Euro-states the backing get the Parliament in Athens. The left-wing politicians received early Wednesday morning at a confidence vote 162 votes. Overall, the Parliament has 300 seats. The vote was about his plan to retire from international aid program. Instead, the government wants to achieve further debt. The finance ministers of the euro-zone come together at a special meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. So far, there is little evidence that a bridge solution for the coming months can be found.
“I want to assure you that there is no going back,” Tsipras said in a rousing speech. Greece should leave the time of bailouts behind. Despite the demands of his predecessor Antonis Samaras or Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the government would not apply for renewal of the aid program, Tsipras said. He was confident that Greece will agree with the Euro-partners. But an agreement could mean no new loans and no savings requirements, he said.
For its course the politicians of the radical leftist SYRIZA party also has the people behind them. According to a survey, 75 percent support his negotiating position. Many Greeks reject the austerity and reform policy to which the country had committed in return for billions in loans of the euro countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The utility runs from the end of February. In fact, however, it has already been terminated because he rejects the creditor troika of the EU, European Central Bank and IMF Tsipras. If an agreement is not reached soon, again threatens a government default. So far, however, the parties are on a collision course. “We do not want confrontation. We do everything to prevent it,” Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said in Parliament. But if they are not am considering one does not negotiate
. Aid from Russia or China
If the fail talks on a new debt agreement with the Euro-zone, Greece could also consider the help of Russia or China, in the words of Defence Minister Panos Kammenos. “We want to reach an agreement,” said the nationalist politician whose party “Independent Greeks” a coalition with Tsipras’s SYRIZA has formed. “But if there is no agreement … and we find that Germany remains rigid and wants to blow Europe, we have a duty to Plan B to move,” said Kammenos on television. Then one must open up other sources of funding. At best, these would be the United States. But also come into question Russia, China or other countries.
According to the deputy Foreign Minister Nikos Chountis Russia and China have already offered economic assistance. “We advise about it,” said Chountis the radio. The government in Athens had not asked for it. An agreement with the European partners have priority.
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias wanted to visit Russia on Wednesday. At a meeting with his colleague Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin he had on Tuesday confirmed the demand of his government that Germany would have to pay billions in reparations for wrongs perpetrated in Greece during World War II. Steinmeier rejected it. All reparations had been completed legally, he said
. Markets tense
The conflict between Greece and its partners will also the financial markets closely monitored. In the foreign exchange market investors waited on Wednesday in Asian trade from first. Analysts at Bank BNP Paribas wrote, if the parties did not find a common denominator or at least expressed optimism that nervousness could increase. (Rtr)
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