French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Berlin want to explain the Greek crisis finally a top priority.
Shortly after midnight, the summit meeting of the major donors for Greece is the Chancellery in Berlin came to an end. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had together with ECB President Mario Draghi and the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, agreed, “with great intensity” continue to look for a solution , said a government spokesman in Berlin at night. In addition one will stay among themselves and also with the Greek government continued in close contact. Details were not immediately known.
The aim of the meeting was to stake out a common position in the future negotiations with Athens. According to the newspaper “Die Welt” was the aim of international donors, to work out a compromise proposal for Greece. “The meeting will serve the goal of making the Greeks one last offer, but strictly on the basis of the current program”, as the “world” to have learned from negotiating circles.
The talks in Berlin lasted about three hours. Originally just a date of Juncker, Hollande and Merkel had been known. If until the weekend can not reach an agreement, Greece is likely to be subject to the G-7 Summit in the Bavarian Elmau.
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For months negotiating Athens exasperated with his creditors on the terms on which the threatened bankruptcy of state pending loans amounting to 7.2 billion euros to get paid. This Friday, in turn, is a repayment to the IMF amounting to more than EUR 300 million. According to a report of “World” Athens is but apparently his creditors: As the newspaper reports, citing the environment of participants in the negotiations, signaled Tsipras, also on pension cuts and want to talk a later retirement age. But a concrete proposal there is not.
Tsipras himself declared to the negotiations, that there was still no agreement so far, “is not due to the supposedly implacable, uncompromising and incomprehensible attitude of Greece”. It lay rather “at the insistence of some institutional actors on absurd proposals and a complete indifference to the recent democratic decision of the Greek people,” he wrote in a commentary for the French newspaper “Le Monde”. His Government had already made concessions to the creditors, said the leftist government. So a series of privatizations had been decided that his Syriza party had originally rejected.
© Reuters ECB president Mario Draghi on his arrival in Berlin in the late evening.
ECB president Mario Draghi on his arrival in Berlin in the late evening.
Also, a reform of the tax and the pension system have agreed to Athens. But rather than reliance on austerity measures that the country had driven further into recession, his Government would also implement reforms to increase revenue, Tsipras wrote. These included a special tax for the super rich, the stronger fight against tax evasion and the sale of broadcasting licenses. Succeed no agreement, Greece threatens incalculable consequences up to the exit from the euro zone. Against this scenario, Juncker warned in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” on Monday: “This idea that we have fewer worries and constraints if Greece delivers the euro, I do not share.”
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