Greece – IMF sets of negotiations with the Greeks – Frankfurter Rundschau

June 11, 2015

In the terminal: The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Photo: AP

The International Monetary Fund sees the talks with Greece to resolve the debt dispute little progress – and draws unceremoniously his negotiating team from Brussels from.

The International Monetary Fund sees the talks with Greece to resolve the debt dispute, little progress – and draws unceremoniously from his negotiating team from Brussels.

In the dramatic Greek debt crisis agreement Athens with the International Monetary Fund seems (IMF) a distant memory. There were still “significant differences” said IMF spokesman Gerry Rice on Thursday. The IMF team had left the negotiations in Brussels and had traveled back to Washington. A timetable for further talks did not exist. At the same time, the IMF crisis but remain obliged: “The IMF is leaving the negotiating table before.”

“Last not approach”

In an unusually sharp tones Rice criticized the lack of willingness to compromise of the soon to be national bankruptcy country. There have recently been no progress to settle differences. “The ball is now in the far field of the Greeks,” Rice said. Big hurdles admit it continue with pensions, taxes and debt financing. “It was last given here not approach”, Rice said.

The Government

The Greek Government is on the verge of a default, since August 2014, it receives no money from the creditors. Now EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have submitted a list of measures to meet Athens. In return it would receive money to service its debt in the IMF and the EU. Economy Minister George Stathakis called the claims but “unacceptable”.

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The European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF negotiations with Greece over a binding reform program. Only through this can get so far blocked relief funds amounting to 7.2 billion euros in order to avoid the imminent bankruptcy Greece. Since 2010 the country has already received a total of 240 billion euros aid

Juncker:. “Last attempt”

A EU According -Diplomaten a two-hour meeting between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was the afternoon a “last attempt” to allow an agreement. The encounter would not have been necessary if the negotiations would have gone all round, it said. A spokesman for the Greek government signaled by the EU and IMF statements willingness to talk in order to reach an agreement soon.

On the morning had become Chancellor Angela Merkel satisfied with the meeting with Tsipras and French President Francois Hollande expressed in Brussels on the eve. A senior EU official spoke of “good prospects” that next week a settlement the undertaking that should be acceptable to the euro zone finance ministers. On June 18, the euro group meets regularly in Luxembourg. (RTR).