Athens on deaf to its partners, before a week of all … – Boursorama

Athens on deaf to its partners, before a week of all … – Boursorama

The new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at a session of Parliament, February 5, 2015 Athens (Pool / AFP / Yannis Behrakis)

Back in Athens after a European marathon inconclusive, the leaders of the new Greek government on Friday reiterated their demands for a bridge plan help the country camping on their position before a week of high-risk meetings.

The posture of the government, and the passing of time as come crucial to meet debt maturities, pushed the rating agency Standard & amp; Poor’s lowered the rating one notch to the country Friday night, “B” to “B-”, threatening to go even further.

In the evening, Moody’s has increased pressure on announcing placing the Greek rating “on review for degradation” because of “the high uncertainty of the negotiations between Greece and its public creditors.”

The government is seeking 1.9 billion euro to central banks in the euro zone, on the profits made by them on their holdings of Greek bonds and the extension of its debt capacity set by its creditors to 15 billion euros in 2015, Friday repeated a government source

-. “Without Pressure and blackmail” –

The bridge financing should allow “to negotiate without pressure and without resort to blackmail,” she said.

The message is for Germany, which is playing for time while Greece funding sources dry up one after the other, and all supporters of a hard line in Europe .

The Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis (d) and his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble told a news conference in Berlin on 5 February 2015 (AFP / Odd Andersen)

“We do not do financements- relays, “has firmly told Friday the head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem, according to Bloomberg.

Now this is before the Eurogroup, all the finance ministers of the area euro, Greece will play his all on Wednesday before a council of heads of state and government leaders of the European Union.

Prior to these appointments at high risk, maintains Athens So a major demand of the government Tsipras: Empowerment of agreements since 2010 which impose an austerity program which humiliating in exchange for aid of over 200 billion euros.

– Germany uncompromising –

But for Germany, Greece must stick to past commitments and timetable, without even temporary emergency rule <. / p>

President of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, January 30, 2015 in Athens (AFP / File / Aris Messinis)

The countdown is more committed than ever to the country, which could be deprived February 28 of all international aid, and whose funding is hanging by a Bank of safety net European Central “ELA”.

The Eurogroup meeting on Greece “was expected and is welcome,” had said earlier sources close to the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, back Athens Thursday after marathon talks in Rome, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin with European leaders to honing his anti-austerity argument.

Prime Minister leads from the front European campaign and national commitments, after thousands of people have shown their support by demonstrating Thursday in Athens.

He must present Sunday night the government program to parliament before an expected vote of confidence on Tuesday.

This should not facilitate European dialogue: several anti-austerity Syriza promises exasperate supporters of rigor in Europe, whether to raise the minimum wage, rehire staff or stop privatization <. / p>

Events and meetings in connection with the debt of Greece (AFP / L. Saubadu / cam)

Facing Athens Camp fiscal discipline is organized with Germany, but also the whole country just weaned from European aid, such as Portugal and Spain.

Both Italy and France have adopted them a more conciliatory line, but refuse a Greek debt relief does not penalize their taxpayers.

In an attempt to still give leeway to Greece, the Italian Minister of Economy Pier Carlo Padoan said Friday that the Eurogroup “was not a place of conflict between one team and another, but of a constant search for shared solutions”

-. “Near a exit from the euro “-

Speaking on the record, the United States have meanwhile found via their ambassador in Greece David Pearce” very important that the Greek government is working with European colleagues, and with the IMF. “

Rally at the Greek Parliament to support the anti-austerity new government policy February 5, 2015 in Athens (AFP / Louisa Gouliamaki)

Before the extraordinary meeting of the Eurogroup on Wednesday held a meeting of G20 finance ministers Monday and Tuesday in Istanbul.

“The Greece naturally not on the formal agenda, but you can probably expect to play a role in bilateral meetings “on the sidelines of the summit, said spokesman of the German Ministry of Finance.

In an alarmist Friday Note, Capital Economics analysts believe that Greece has “never been so close to an exit from the euro.”

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