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Friday 05 June 2015
Splits in Athens: In the midst of the final spurt in the negotiations on the Greek financial crisis has Prime Minister Tsipras the “absurd” suggestions the lender back. He also stressed that an agreement in the debt dispute “closer than ever” was.
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected the new Reform list of international donors as absurd. Such proposals could not agree with his government, Tsipras said in a speech to parliament in Athens. However, he expressed confidence that Greece and the international lenders were closer to an agreement than ever before.
Tsipras was on Wednesday by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the euro group chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem been submitted a list of measures whose implementation is a prerequisite for further aid billion. This demand of the IMF and the euro-partner, among other pension cuts in the amount of one percent of economic output. Also to EUR 800 million can be saved through cuts in pensions for low earners.
He hoped that the list would again withdrawn, Tsipras said. Only the reform offers that he had presented at the meeting in Brussels, could serve as a basis for a solution to the debt dispute.
Tsipras was launched in January with the promise to pay the recession-plagued nation no new burdens more. The Deputy Minister for Social Security, Dimitris Stratoulis, said that if the financiers “not depart from its blackmail package, the government will have to find alternative solutions, elections”.
The demand is controversial. So Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has ruled out early elections. He’s coming on Monday to give a lecture to Berlin. On Tuesday, he meets possibly together with Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Athens staggers
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Without an agreement in the debt dispute threatens Greece According to the European Commission this year relapse into recession. “One can not rule out that because financial stability is a prerequisite for economic growth,” said Deputy President Valdis Dombrovskis.
In May, the authorities in Brussels had its forecast for the growth of the Greek gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015 evaporated to 0.5 of 2.5 percent. Greece’s economy had shrunk for six consecutive years before they first grew again last year. However, the plus fell modestly from 0.8 percent. In the first quarter 2015, GDP shrank by 0.2 percent.
After all, the IMF had agreed that Greece’s due June rates bundled repay at month end. Actually, on Friday was due the payment of 300 million euros. Greece is barely able to pay the salaries of state employees for weeks. The state is therefore at risk of acute solvency.
Source: n-tv.de
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