Find EU and Greece still a way out of the crisis ? Or is it already too late? The government of Athens has now presented a reform list. All information in the news ticker.
- Athens submitted reform list.
- Central bank: exit to Athens from the euro is not an option
- ECB. Greek banks will no longer buy government bonds
10.16 clock: Greece will repay on time on Thursday a loan of around 450 million euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The learned the German Press Agency of circles of Finance in Athens. “Do not worry. The money is there. We will remit today,” it said.
Athens Minister: Agreement with financiers to 24 April
09.43 Clock: Greek government wants the negotiations with experts of donors on a major reform to list 24 finish of April.. The Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris on Thursday on Greek television. “At the meeting of the Euro Group on April 24, there will be 100 percent agreement”, the close associates of the Greek Government Alexis Tsipras said. On the day the euro finance ministers will meet for an even longer planned meeting in Riga, Latvia.
CSU warns Greece to move away from the EU
08.50 Clock: have Given the controversial Russian-visit by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras CSU politician before turning away warned of the European Union. The CSU MEP Markus Ferber asked the government in Athens, not agree to a Russian derogation of Greece, the ban on imports of agricultural products. “The food boycott directed against the EU as a whole,” Ferber said the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. “If Moscow should now cancel its sanctions against various countries, it is clear what is to be achieved in order: (Russian President) Vladimir Putin is making every effort to drive a wedge between the EU members,” warned Ferber. The Greeks should “know that the solidarity of the EU-way street” could be
Greeks must now pay 450 million euros
7.50 clock. Today running from Greece period for repayment of an IMF loan. The International Monetary Fund expects back some 450 million euros. Finance Minister Giani Varoufakis had recently pledged to repay the money on time.
Summary, Thursday, 8th / 9th April: The Moscow visit of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is the CSU European politician Manfred Weber’s view of little help for the reform negotiations with donors. “Russia can currently not be a serious partner for Greece,” the leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) said in the European Parliament of the German Press Agency in Brussels. Tsipras had agreed on the first day of his visit to Moscow on Wednesday his country closer cooperation with Russia.
Tsipras must now face reality and deliver results with an ambitious reform program, called Weber. “The EU’s outstretched hand is there. He (Tsipras) they must now take it.”
Experts donor and Greece are negotiating a reform package. These include more to combat tax evasion and privatization of ports and airports. Only when there is an agreement on a comprehensive reform list, blocked and much needed help from Athens flow of 7.2 billion euros. Russia wants Greece engage with investments and potential million-revenue from the gas transit under the arms.
observers suspected that the Russian government wants good relations with Athens the EU-Russia hard course soften. Tsipras regarded as critics of the sentence imposed in the wake of the crisis Ukraine EU sanctions against the huge country.
EU Parliament President Martin Schulz (SPD) certified Tsipras that he had not departed in his meeting with Vladimir Putin Kremlin chief of the EU common line towards Russia. “With all gaiety between Mr Putin and Mr Tsipras: The line that we expect of him, he did not leave,” Schulz told ZDF television. The calm him down. Tsipras would eventually serve two audiences: in his own country and in the EU.
The Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Bundestag, Peter Ramsauer (CSU), the journey of the Greek Prime Minister, however, sharply criticized: “For the financial vagabondage now be added the external political blackmail,” he told the “Passauer Neue Presse” (Thursday). “After the CSU principle of” solidarity only against soundness “is beyond the final red line with the visit to Moscow.” The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok (CDU), warned to Athens, Greece had no economic future with Russia. “Russia can not restore the standard of living of the Greeks. The white and the majority of the Greek people,” he told the newspaper “Bild” (Thursday).
On Thursday Tsipras wanted to meet, among others, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The day also be found on the repayment of a loan of around 450 million euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Greece. But the country concerned in the short term fresh funds in the capital market
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