Greece crisis: Juncker and Tsipras have pronounced themselves – THE WORLD

Time is pressing for a solution in the debt dispute with Greece and the parties urge rapid solution. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) called on Greece to work with “vigor and high-pressure” on a common solution with the negotiators, she said in Brussels. “Now every day counts.”

Photo: AP best of a bad game: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) and French President Francois Hollande (r.) talk at the beginning of their meeting on alongside the EU-Latin America summit in Brussels on June 10

The day before Merkel and French President François Hollande had with the Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras until midnight hit a two-hour conversation. In Anschuss was talk of a constructive atmosphere. “I hope that now the necessary advances,” Merkel said on the morning after.

A lot of time is not to find an agreement. On June 30, the current utility of Europeans for Athens ends. This ends the offer, nor pay out billions in loans outstanding to the country. However, an agreement would have to fall before.

Greece threatens the end of June, the national bankruptcy. The disbursement of a further tranche of aid of EUR 7.2 billion will depend on further reforms of the country. The negotiations about the EU Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had recently stalled.

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              While talking with Merkel, there was little progress: We have agreed to soon to come to a solution, as Tsipras. . This is necessary because the next loan payment is to soon Source: N24

If the current program extended?

On June 18, the euro zone finance ministers in Brussels will gather at a regular meeting. Make sure you are at the end of a reform and austerity in Greece. If already emerging agreement, it says, could she also previously arrange a meeting.

Given the tight schedule is becoming more intense on a possible extension of current utility speculated. Corresponding demands reiterated the government in Athens. Greece strut to extend by nine months in order to gain time to prepare a program of reform, said a Greek government official.

In the circle of negotiators of Greece would However, you do not talk about it publicly. One would get the reform pressure on Athens upright. The resistance in the Member States against an extension without reliable austerity and reform commitments of the Greeks would also be enormous.

The European Commission stresses that in the 20th February agreed in Brussels negotiating framework. He looks a completion of the current aid program reviews before talking about an extension.

Today also EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will again Tsipras to talks hit. The Luxembourg had recently shown upset about the fact that Tsipras last week in Athens Parliament a compromise offer of the institutions involved in the negotiations described as “absurd”.

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Now he wants to take up the thread of conversation again. On Wednesday he had met Tsipras at the edge of the summit and embraced him warmly. In a brief conversation the two had their “personal relationship” re-established, they say. “The cow has the ice, but it slips out permanently,” Juncker said ahead of the meeting with Tsipras, to be held in the afternoon. “We are now trying to push back.”

Many interlocutors warned against a failure of the negotiations between Greece and its lenders. “Time is running out,” said France’s Finance Minister Michel Sapin in Paris. “No one can afford to fail.”

The European Central Bank Greece already made a concession by in a conference call on Wednesday, the largest increase in emergency liquidity is for the banking system of the country for nearly four months granted. The Governing Council increased the ceiling for so-called ELA loans by 2.3 billion euros to 83 billion euros to compensate for outflows.

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