Sunday, April 19, 2015

+++ +++ Greece crisis: Putin denied billion payment to Athens – ABC Online

Updated on Sunday, 04.19.2015, 08:29
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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.

  • Continue negotiations with Greece
  • Athens hopes to cash injections from China and Russia
  • IMF will not tolerate any deferred payment.

Putin denied billion payment to Athens

Sunday, April 19, 08.28 clock: Greece can not count on financial support from Russia, according to the Kremlin. There was no corresponding agreements between President Vladimir Putin and the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the meeting in early April, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday radio station Business FM. Moscow has offered no specific grant, and Athens have not requested.

At their meeting Putin and Tsipras had but certainly talked about cooperation in the energy sector. Putin has the crisis-ridden EU country made hundreds of millions of euros in transit fees in view when he participates in the gas pipeline Turkish stream. Russia wants to sell over Greece energy to Southeast Europe. “Spiegel Online” reported a possible energy agreements between Moscow and Athens. Component should therefore also multibillion dollar advance payments to Greece for future income from dergeplanten gas pipeline to be.



Even IMF head Lagarde increases the pressure on Greece

Saturday, April 18, 22.41 clock: The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has the reform appeals connected to the Greek Government. Lagarde said on Saturday at the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington, they expect “not only an acceleration, but also a deepening of the work” of those responsible in Athens. The Steering Committee of the IMF (IMFC) mentioned the debt crisis in Greece in its communiqué but not specifically as a risk to the world economy.



Schäuble sees support for German position in Greek Crisis

20.57 Clock: Federal Finance Minister Schäuble sees international backing for the German position in the Greek debt crisis. “We even get the highest authority only recognition,” Schaeuble said on Saturday with a view of the recent statements by US President Barack Obama, who had warned Athens to a continuation of the reform policy. Schäuble said that he was “not under pressure” fall into bilateral talks at the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Greece topic.

Obama did Greece asked on Friday to “do what we already say, “Schaeuble said. “He has, I believe, strongly supports the policy of the German Chancellor.” The US president had stressed the importance of structural reforms in Greece at a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and rejected the impression that he was a critic of the policies of Chancellor Merkel. At the same time he also encouraged increased investment to strengthen the growth of.

Schäuble showed further very skeptical that it at a meeting with his colleagues from the Euro group next Friday in Riga an agreement with Greece on a binding will give reform agenda. Athens had agreed in writing on 20 February to submit a binding reform agenda by the end of April. Under this assumption, the euro partners agreed to help Greece more financially. The negotiations with Athens but so far were “not progressed very far,” Schaeuble said. As long as Greece did not fulfill the requirements of the donors of the IMF and the EU, could the next loan tranche not be paid

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