Paris (AFP) – The new Greek government begins Sunday in Paris a European tour to garner support in his crusade to alleviate the debt burden, armed with a more civilized discourse to try to reassure its creditors.
The Greek Minister of Finance must Yanis Varoufakis meet his French counterpart Michel Sapin around 1600 GMT in Paris. The two men must then read a joint statement to 5:30 p.m. GMT.
In addition to Mr. Tree, Mr. Varoufakis will also meet on Sunday French economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, before heading to London he will meet Monday with his British counterpart George Osborne and representatives of the City business community.
On Tuesday, he will be in Rome to see his counterpart Pier Carlo Padoan.
Since the electoral victory of SYRIZA party last Sunday, the new leftist government of Alexis Tsipras holds its European partners in suspense on the issue of reimbursement of the Greek debt, and after the first tense exchange, Athens has the Saturday water into wine.
“Nobody wants conflict and we never had the intention to act unilaterally on our debt,” and said Tsipras.
During his meetings, Mr. Varoufakis will be a “technical approach to the issue,” with “rigorous and quantitative arguments” for “gain support,” according to his entourage.
On Friday, the head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem went to Athens and exchanges with Mr. Varoufakis to the press were icy, the Dutch minister warning against non-compliance with the agreements made by Greece, struggling under a debt exceeds 300 billion euros, representing more than 170% of its GDP.
Syriza Mr. Tsipras training, won his victory with the promise to challenge the policies of austerity imposed by Greece’s creditors in return for their largesse.
The challenge now is to determine what the actual trading margin for Athens. Greece can it get more time to pay, lighter deadlines or completely erase part of its slate
Another essential question: how long can the negotiations, as the country looks be financially desperate.
Mr. Varoufakis will also be responsible to clarify the position of Athens on the technical aspects of trading. Currently, Greece’s creditors are represented by the “Troika” hitch involving the IMF, the European Commission and the ECB. However, the Greek government does not want to negotiate with the troika became an emblem of the intransigence of creditors, and seems to prefer to negotiate directly with creditors
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On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has leapt to rule out any idea of outright cancellation of debt, largely owned by European states.
“It has already been there a Voluntary renunciation of private creditors, banks have already given up billions of loans to Greece, “explained the ruling in an interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt. “I do not see any new debt forgiveness” (should this time be granted by official creditors), added Merkel.
Mr. Fir, who portrays France on an open dialogue but excludes deletion, said he hoped to be a “link” between Greece and the powerful Germany.
With their governments Left, France and Italy appear to be the two countries in which most Greeks rely to support them, as Mr. Tsipras, after a stint in Cyprus on Monday will be Tuesday and Wednesday in Rome in Paris.
In the poker game begins, the Greek government feel behind the crowd of demonstrators from radical left party “Podemos”, Spanish for SYRIZA, which were at least 100,000 on Saturday in the streets of Madrid to tell their will to change the rules of the European game.
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