Greece calls: Tsipras meets Juncker in Brussels – SPIEGEL ONLINE

After all, they still talk to each other: The talks with Greece go in the evening in another round. Without additional assistance the country could be insolvent in a few days. Recent speeches by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras encounter in Berlin but in advance on muted reactions.

Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) assessed the Greek government’s plans to solve the debt crisis in any case skeptical. His spokesman Martin Jäger said he did not yet know the proposal from Athens though. But after all that was heard so far, urging “the impression that this list will not be the last solution to the problem”. The proposal was surprisingly come after you’ve been waiting for months.

“Relevant basis for discussion” is the view of the Treasury of the joint proposal from the three donors institutions.

Significant criticism practiced Schäuble to the election promises of the Greek ruling party Syriza. Their politicians have given the impression that there could be no major reform efforts succeed to rescue Greece. “This should have been perhaps not to promise that,” Schaeuble told the magazine “Wirtschaftswoche”.

Tsipras wants Grexit scenarios put an end

Alexis Tsipras wants on Wednesday evening its new proposals for an agreement with the international lenders with European Commission President Jean- Claude Juncker discussed in Brussels. Immediately prior to the scheduled for 20.30 clock Meeting of Greek Prime Minister underscored again its position: in particular creditors would have to move.

Junckers invitation he gladly accept, Tsipras announced in a message to, “to talk about the proposal of the Greek Government”

“It is necessary that the institutions -. And especially the political leadership in Europe – also the realism shown by the Greek side shows for three months “. Greece aim for an agreement that will enable it to emerge from the “economic suffocation” and “Grexit scenarios and doomsday scenarios put an end”.

Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, however, sees the Greek Government on the train. The decision lay with her, whether they accept the proposals for reform of the donors or not. The so-called Grexit, a withdrawal of Greece from the euro zone, would have catastrophic consequences, Steinmeier warned in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.

The spokesman for the European Commission, however, only confirmed the meeting between Juncker and Tsipras. Even the euro group chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem will attend, said a representative of the Euro zone.

A final solution will not give it on Wednesday night, the spokesman added. First, the institutions of the EU Commission, the IMF and the ECB would have to assess the Greek as agreed reform plans. Subsequently, the euro zone finance ministers would decide on the release of aid funds. “This is a preliminary discussion and not final,” said a spokesman for Juncker. The final agreement should be met with the finance ministers of the euro countries.

Merkel and Hollande come Tsipras at budgetary objective contrary

Shortly before the summit meeting on the debt crisis, Germany and France Greek Government come to meet, according to Athens: In a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and French President Francois Hollande would have enjoyed the “need” to reduce the targets for the Greek primary surplus.

What the surplus should be at least, was not disclosed. The lower the “primary surplus” is set, the lower the pressure to cut costs and the pressure to increase revenue.

Greece had wanted to achieve in his household originally a “primary surplus” in this year of three percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The government in Athens had, however, demanded that the budget targets are reduced in the coming years. According to media reports, it aims at a value of less than 1.0 percent of GDP in 2015. 2016, the primary surplus from 1.5 to 2.0 and amount to 3.5 per cent by 2017. The European Commission is reported to have agreed with this line in principle, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants more ambitious targets.