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 are no government bonds for sale
Reparations Athens puts German guilt 287.7 billion euros
The Greek government has called for the first time specific figures: As Germany’s reparations for World War II Athens expect 287.7 billion euros, consistently report “Spiegel Online” and the “Bild-Zeitung”. This sum was Vice-Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas named in Parliament during a meeting of the parliamentary committee to examine actually how Athens has amassed its sovereign debt.
The sum resulting from the analysis of all documents by a Greek expert committee , it was said. Greece could prove exactly how it is composed, so Mardas: 10.3 billion euros amounts to the value of the forced loan that Greece had granted the German occupiers. The remaining billion corresponded to the compensation that would derive from the families of the victims of the occupation, as well as the compensation for the then destroyed infrastructure in the country, reports “Spiegel Online”. Each competent authority may inspect files (Sunday, 6 April 22.30 clock) “
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07.54 Clock: sluggish harmonization of corporate taxation in Europe are from the perspective of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and France, especially in the duty. “Berlin and Paris if, despite the Greek debate muster the energy needed in Europe the issues of tax harmonization promote and tax enforcement, “said Baden-Württemberg Europe Minister Peter Friedrich (SPD)
Tsipras sees austerity in Greece continue to test
07.15 Clock: Despite international pressure, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants to put the austerity of his country in the past years to the test. The “questions that arise regarding the austerity of the past five years, are immense,” , which links politician said on Monday evening in a parliamentary session that dealt with the work of a Review Committee to the emergence of the Greek debt mountain.
Tsipras claimed that the Greeks would have to learn “how the country could accept measures which the debt can rise by 124 per cent of gross domestic product at the beginning of the crisis to 175 percent today.” As part of the austerity measures also were wages fell, unemployment increased and there was an exodus of young skilled workers.
The establishment of the Review Committee was one of the campaign promises of Tsipras’ Syriza party. The committee consists of scientists and lawyers and to reconstruct how it came to the increase in debt and austerity measures that had been decided as of 2010 in exchange for funding from the European Union, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Investigation Committee’s causes of the Greek debt crisis after
04.28 Clock: A committee of the Greek Parliament to find out who is responsible for the debt crisis in the country. The Parliament approved on Tuesday morning after several hours of debate a proposal to the left-right government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. After his words to be thrown to the events of 2009 to the Present “light”. Video: Merkel explains how the Greeks rescue work
US Government Athens must cooperate better with euro partners
Tuesday 07 April ,, 00.59 clock: The US government urges Greece to improve cooperation with its partners in the euro zone. The guide in Athens must negotiate with the representatives of donors seriously and commit fully to them, said a government official in Washington on Monday. This message was also the Secretary of State for International Relations in the US Treasury Department, Nathan Sheets, delivered at a meeting with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Sunday clearly, it was said in the US government. Varoufakis had agreed in Washington that his country would fulfill all commitments made in return for grants awarded. After meeting with IMF chief Christine Lagarde he also asserted, Greece was prepared to make far-reaching reforms
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