Whether these two agree? IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) calls on Greece apparently pension cuts and the VAT increase, so that the country gets paid the next tranche of its bailout package. After a visit by Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis with IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Washington Greek media report unanimously other financiers in Europe are “flexible”.
The negotiations between Greece and the donors will be intensified this week in Brussels and Athens. Greece threatens to go out the money. From the government, there are different voices on whether the country can repay a loan tranche of around 450 million euros to the IMF on Thursday.
During his visit on Sunday evening Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis told the IMF to the payment. The Minister stressed on Monday night: “The Greek government always fulfilled its obligations to all creditors, and she intends to continue to do so.” Lagarde said in a written statement, continued uncertainty was not in the Greek interest.
The IMF reforms are not in Greece List
Varoufakis assured his part that his country will implement various reforms into practice. The goal is now to “make more effective” means the process of negotiations with donors. Last week, the government sent a new reform list to Brussels, pension cuts, however, are not included. VAT reductions abolish the islands also belongs not to the plans of Varoufakis. As the German Press Agency learned from circles of the Greek Ministry of Finance, Athens is trying to dissuade the IMF demand that Greece for obtaining much needed assistance to July had to make a series of cuts.
The relationship between the IMF and Greece are heavily loaded, especially at the working level of professionals. The new government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not want to let the professionals of the “troika” of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF into the country. Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis had to have said as professor: “You need today is not the Wehrmacht send, it is sufficient if each month comes the troika.”
Contractually agreed that compliance with the reform programs of the professionals in the country are controlled, but the last exam of December 2014 was never completed. And when in March returned the experts of the troika to Athens, they expected to be brought into the Treasury by bus, but then they found themselves in the basement of 200 meters from hotel again. There, said the Treasury officials that they must consider how the detailed questions they would give an answer. The pro-government media reacted to the visit with the description of the experts as enemies of the state and the publication of wanted posters on individual members of the delegation.
In March said IMF staff that the Fund had never had to do it in its 70-year history with such a difficult country. Before Easter, the talks were considered so futile that the fund withdrew its staff from Athens. It was not until the middle of April to be negotiated further.
soon Comes money for Greece? The euro states say no
An early disbursement of new aid is considered unlikely. In Brussels, expectations were scaled down to the meeting of the Finance Secretaries of the 19 euro countries this Wednesday and Thursday. It was expected – as with the switching conference last week – go to an inventory, it was Easter weekend in EU circles
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In the round, there had been no certainty before Easter that Greece can lift the repayment to the IMF this Thursday. Even with an early convening of a special meeting of euro zone finance ministers will not currently expected, it said. The next meeting of department heads is scheduled on May 24 in Riga, Latvia. Only the Minister may impose new billions in aid to Greece on the way.
Greece rhetorical turns to the side of Europe
A solution in the Greek financial crisis can, in the words of Varoufakis only in the “European family” are found. Among the rumors circulating for days, Greece might loans outside the EU are looking for (such as Russia or China), the minister replied the Athenian economy Journal “Naftemboriki”: “The solution to the crisis (…) relates to the European family and must be in the EU framework be found. “On April 8, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras traveling on a visit to Moscow.
Government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis dismissed fears that Russia travel of Tsipras could mean a distancing of Greece by the EU. “The pro-European stance of Greece is secured,” he told the TV channel Mega. According to the deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas, the Greek government has enough money to pay pensions and salaries for public employees this week. “But that does not mean that we in the next week no more money,” he said.
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In the Greek Parliament adopted at weekends a committee to work on, who wants to find out who the debt crisis the State was responsible. The committee is composed of international experts. It deals with the tenure of the socialist government Giorgos Papandreou (2009 to 2011), the non-party interim government Lucas Papademos (2011 to 2012) and the coalition government of Conservatives and Socialists (June 2012-January 2015) under the then Prime Minister Antonis Samaras .
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