Five and a half hours foreclosed: “a good meeting”, but not a compromise – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Thursday 04 June 2015

 
 
 

 
 Save Greece from bankruptcy, but how? Search for a solution EU Commission President Juncker, the Greek Prime Minister and Euro group chief Dijsselbloem Tsipras. You will not find, but converging. Tsipras is satisfied.
 

 
 

The high-level meeting on the Greek crisis in Brussels has been completed without result after five and a half hours in the morning. The talks by the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Euro group chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem to resolve the Greek debt crisis should continue in the coming days, diplomats reported after the encounter. According to Dijsselbloem the talks were positive. It should have been a “very good” meeting, he said.

Tsipras spoke in turn of “constructive and amicable discussions”. “Result” for him was that the Greek proposal beyond body “of realistic proposal on the table” b. The proposals of the donors there is common ground, but also points, “no one can be regarded as a basis for discussion”. The discussion would now “continue in the coming days”.

Previously Tsipras had telephoned from Brussels with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. They would have agreed that Athens would continue to generate in its national budget just low “primary surplus” (without interest payments on public debt), it was said from Athens. This was one of the demands of Greece.

A lot of time is not Athens, empty public coffers. Already on Friday a payment to the Internatio nal Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of 305 million euros is due. In the current month payments to the International Monetary Fund of a total of nearly 1.6 billion euros are at. Athens must operate in addition to month-end due government bonds by more than 5 billion euros. Experts see the country overwhelmed with it.

Opinions vary

In EU circles, there was talk that the face acute shortage of money in Athens also interim solutions should be considered , All options on the table subject. So it could be a question to summarize the due June IMF loan rates and to call for it until the end of the month of Athens. Another option is an extension of the end of June, ending aid program over the summer.

EU Parliament President Martin Schulz (SPD) does not believe in a quick breakthrough. “It is not today give a definitive solution even tomorrow,” he told the newspaper “Tagesspiegel”. Germany and France are looking for information Merkel with high pressure for a solution to the Greek crisis. Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) assessed the compromise proposal Athens, however skeptical. He could optimism the Greek Government do not share as before, he said in Berlin. The ECB determined from a fate of Greece in the euro area. “There is a strong will and a strong determination that we have a good result given at the end,” central bank president Mario Draghi said in Frankfurt.

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In the early hours of Tuesday, Merkel and Hollande with Juncker and IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Draghi had sounded out a compromise in Berlin. Details of its “last offer” were not disclosed. According to information from the “world” to the creditors move to Greece in the debt dispute. So they called in pensions only cuts of one percent of gross domestic product (GDP). . Previously they had demanded savings of 1.5 percent

In contrast, cited the “Handelsblatt” a contrary voice from negotiating circles: “As are worlds apart.” Tsipras is supposed to be already moved away a bit of his campaign promises to Greek media reports. Among other things, he rejected privatization no longer from. A controversial property tax should remain. In addition, there should be a value-added tax reform with more than one billion euros additional burden for citizens.

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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