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After months of negotiations the euro countries and the International Monetary Fund agree the Greeks today from over the course of reform. In a referendum, the government in Athens will assure the backing of their citizens, continue to reject the proposals of the funders. If a majority of the last lying on the negotiating table reform measures say, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had indicated his resignation. In polls keep opponents and supporters the scale
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16:20 clock: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has expressed the hope that Greece even after the referendum on the austerity measures continued in the euro area remains . “Greece is part of the European Union and the euro zone, and I hope it stays there,” Rajoy said in a speech to the Policy Institute Faes on Sunday, while the Greeks on the proposals of the international donors were voting. At the same time, he referred to the solidarity of the euro zone countries and insisted on compliance with the rules of the single currency area.
“The euro is not and can not be a Club à la carte. There are standards and regulations in order to ensure its survival,” the conservative politician who opposed to the left Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras critically said. Rajoy warned that the future will not be easy, no matter how the referendum go out. At the same time, he stressed, Spain is stable enough in order to cope with a Greek exit from the euro. This was due to the reform and austerity measures that have hit his government.
15:45. Clock: The participation in the referendum in Greece is by matching reports Greek media have early Sunday afternoon surpassed the 40 percent . Thus will the result of the referendum on the Greek austerity program be legally , it said. The media rely on information from the Interior Ministry. In referendums, the voter turnout must be at least 40 percent in Greece. Otherwise, the result has no effect. Polling stations should close at 19.00 local time (18:00 CEST). Getting meaningful results are expected about two hours later
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15: 34 clock: Our columnist Harald Martenstein has been given the referendum in Greece thought about , as it would be if he could vote on the people, if he his Column continue to write or not. And at home, and just before the editorial deadline. He stated that the editors would then probably something into trouble and would not be entirely fair, in turn, want to the middle of the game change the rules.
14:50 clock: Federal Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) rejected the harsh criticism of the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to the international donors sharp. “The manifestation of Varoufakis is a mockery of all those who suffer from terrorism “, she says the “Passauer Neue Presse”. Varoufakis had described the actions of the creditors in the debt dispute as terrorism
14:00 clock:. Our Brussels correspondent, Christopher Ziedler with a look at the atmosphere to the European Union :
It’s the calm before the storm: Not only that, for Brussels this so sultry Sunday the evening has to be expected with thunderstorms, also the result of the Greek referendum will in a few hours to trigger political shockwaves , which will shake the European capital. Either way. In a No to the credit conditions of European donors, quite a few EU politicians are calling for the Grexit. If yes again, the voices will be louder, accused the EU that it is held together only by the pressure medium of fear
Nevertheless, it is still:. With groundbreaking declarations or even decisions can not be expected on this evening in Brussels. Stand now is merely announced that Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, makes a statement. Commission chief Jean-Claude, the European destiny vote at home look at in Luxembourg wants not to comment publicly on Sunday, but until Tuesday at the European Parliament. His authority will turn when the official result, it is common to publish an explanation. However, this could be only on Monday morning.
How is EU Council President Donald Tusk will be heard on behalf of the State and Government, is also unclear. He had on Friday night in an interview, however, a different position than Juncker, Schulz, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel represented, who more or less interpreted the referendum openly as referendum on staying or exit from the monetary union.
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The reason is Weidmann have called the high cost of a possible Greek euro-exit. So far, the finance minister has factored in a Bundesbank profit of 2.5 billion annually. The Bundesbank has indeed already made provisions of 14.4 billion euros last for the risks of the euro crisis. But this would not be enough in case of Grexits
13:15 clock:. Greek Finance Yanis Varoufakis said the referendum on Sunday after the release of his voice in Athens on TV ERT1: “It is a moment of hope for the whole of Europe . The common currency and democracy can live together and they will also “
12:50 clock:. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has the rapid resumption of negotiations between Europe and Athens after the referendum in Greece pronounced. “We need to start again, to talk to each other – no one knows this better than Angela Merkel,” Renzi told the newspaper “Il Messaggero” on Sunday. He also pleaded for solidarity with the Greeks in the crisis. “If you see crying pensioner front of a bank, you realize that such an important for the world and its cultural country like Greece should not end like this.”
Renzi same time stressed that Greece is not without a pension reform , a labor market reform and strengthening the fight against tax evasion from the crisis is to lead. At the same time he joined counter fears that in the event of a worsening of the crisis in Greece and of withdrawal of the country from the euro area also Italy could be destabilized. “Italy is already out of the firing line,” Renzi said. “About is no longer spoken in the same breath as our unfortunate Greek friends.”
12:35 clock: Greek Finance Yanis Varoufakis has reiterated that he withdraw with a Yes vote in the referendum is . “Absolutely,” he says of the “image” to a question. A majority for a ‘yes’ but it will not give
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12:30 clock: France’s Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron calls for further negotiations between Greece and its creditors . It had to be found a compromise, and one should not only hide behind the emergency response of the European Central Bank. “Whatever the outcome of the vote, we have to take the political discussions again tomorrow,” Macron said on Sunday. “Although the Greek No wins, it will be our responsibility to not make the Treaty of Versailles the euro zone this,” the minister said, referring to the agreement which committed Germany after the First World War to painful reparations.
12:20 clock: The correspondent for the BBC in Athens, Katya Adler writes that the outcome of the referendum is difficult to assess. Many people changed their mind last minute
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12:10 clock: The Protestant theologian Margot Käßmann has before the Greek referendum promoted European values . “It is wonderful to live in Europe, most people in the world envy us for it,” writes the former Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) in her column in the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”. That should at “the whole quarrel about money” not be forgotten.
The European unity and the euro were great achievements, so Käßmann on. The show is about the freedom to travel. “We can live in Amsterdam or Prague, Athens and Wroclaw.” Above all, it was a great good that the European states have reconciled after centuries of wars. There is now “a community of values to which we always new rings, about facing refugees”
12:00 clock:. The Head of distinguished Spanish Protest party Podemos, Pablo Iglesias , is declared solidarity with the government in Athens and threw the donors “tyranny” before. Creditors tried the people of Greece and also in Spain instill fear with threats. That He took on expressions of the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. “What to do with Greece, has a name: terrorism”, had said on Saturday the
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10:00 clock: The conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras said in the voting: “We Greeks decide today the fate of our country. We say yes to Greece and indeed to Europe “
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09:50 clock: The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has to the vote at the time appointed by him, the referendum significance of the referendum for the country’s future emphasized . “No one can ignore the message of the determination of a people to take their destiny into their own hands,” Tsipras said on Sunday morning in Athens. “I am sure that we will open a new way for all peoples of Europe.”
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09:10 clock:. EU Parliament President Martin Schulz (SPD) has the Greek Civil in front of a No vote in the referendum warned about the austerity measures. This is a fundamental question about the future of the Euro structure, Schulz said the Germany radio. Should the referendum be negative, so be withdrawn also the framework for debt management and the development of the country. . This in turn has direct consequences: “In the moment when someone introduces a new currency, he emerges from the euro zone,” Schulz
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Schulz also warned against the consequences of a ‘no’ for the EU as a whole. Thus, the current consensus of the Union will be questioned. Sharp criticism expressed Schulz also to the Greek Government. He would have thought such an “ideological charge” never imagined possible. The political leaders in Athens would take the attitude, either to get everything, or everything “going down the drain”.
At the same time Schulz rejected criticism that the creditors were not enough Athens come to meet. This was a legend. Instead, the donors have taken over large parts of the Greek demands. The negotiations would be therefore long since been completed and the referendum would not be necessary, said Schulz
08:45 clock:. The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag” comments on the referendum on the Greek debt crisis: “Europe today followed Sunday in Greece a bizarre vote: The Greeks should opt for just a week thinking about a related austerity measures offer of assistance by the EU, which no longer exists officially. The EU thus receives the acknowledgment for their often described as muddling tactics in recent years, the Greece remained in the euro, but the country refused a haircut. The Union has so completely chained to the fate of Greece and has long been damaged, either way. The damage to the EU as long, regardless of the outcome of the vote “
08:20 clock:. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) has of negative consequences of a Greek exit warned from the euro zone for the reputation of the European Union. “Even if we finance such a development and manage monetary policy, would be the signal of a Grexit to countries outside the EU devastating ” he told the newspaper “Tagesspiegel am Sonntag”. As Grexit the departure of Greece from the euro zone is called. Legally, such a move, however, is not provided
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China, India and the USA observed exactly whether Europeans overcame this crisis or failed due to the challenge, Steinmeier emphasized. In the event of withdrawal of Greece from the euro zone applies: “Europe would lose in the world to view and lose credibility.”
At the same time Steinmeier criticized the Greek government. It is “a mixture of inexperience, ideology and radical rhetoric” with which these negotiations have driven into a blind alley. It had unfortunately fallen by the wayside, which means this course for the people of Greece. After a “No” in the referendum, it will not be easier to reach a compromise. “On the contrary,” the minister emphasized. Greece should seek cooperation with the partners a way out of trouble, “the Europe and the member countries of the euro zone is not overwhelmed,” he urged
08:00 clock:. The former Greek Foreign Minister and Leading opposition politician Dora Bakogianni has made the tough stance of Federal Finance Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) for the referendum on the austerity measures in Greece responsible. “Mr. Schäuble wants a referendum in Griechenlnd”, the politician of the conservative opposition party New Democracy (ND) told the news agency AFP.
You would of Schäuble expected to the proposal of the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would assume from before last Monday in volume of eight billion euros. “Then Mr. Tsipras would have trouble pushing through its proposal in its own ranks. And then the populism in Griechenlnd would have been definitively dead” Bakogianni said. However, despite its great political experience Schäuble had rejected the proposal.
By refusing Schäuble and the Euro Group “Mr. Tsipras found a way out,” Bakogianni said. “This has given no Mr. Tsipras the opportunity to make this referendum and now we are facing the problem..”
07:45 clock: In Greece the highly anticipated referendum on the reform proposals of the international donors started . The result of the referendum is likely to set an important signal for the future cooperation of the threatened with state bankruptcy country with international donors.
According to surveys a very close result was expected. Almost ten million Greeks are called upon to decide whether to accept or reject the claims of creditors. The aid package, which includes these terms is, however, expired on 30 June and thus obsolete. The Athenians left-wing government had appealed to the voters to vote no.
The polling stations close at 18.00 clock CEST. Two to four hours later should be available meaningful results, as the press-service of the government announced. (with AFP, dpa, Reuters)
The events of Saturday you can find here
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