Greece, isolated reaffirms want no more aid – Reuters

Greece, isolated reaffirms want no more aid – Reuters

* Exceptional Eurogroup Meeting Wednesday

* Dijsselbloem evokes a deadline of February 16 for a map of the extension request help

* S & amp; P downgraded the Greek rating, Moody’s put it on negative watch (Updated with statements Dijsselbloem, those of a Greek government official rating agencies)

by Jan Strupczewski

BRUSSELS, 6 (Reuters) – The new Greek government, isolated in his first high-level meeting of the eurozone Thursday and put under pressure by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday reiterated Friday that it would no longer help conditioned on the part of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

A Greek government official said Greece simply wanted an “agreement relay” with its creditors, enabling it to continue to fund up that Athens is able to present its debt reduction program, but ” no new aid, with conditions, inspectors, etc. “

This has reaffirmed the position of the Greek government while Jeroen Dijsselbloem, President of the Eurogroup, dramatized the stakes by saying that Athens had until February 16 to apply for an extension of its aid program, failing What financial support from the eurozone was no longer assured.

For their part, the Standard & amp rating agencies; Poor’s and Moody’s drove home the point, the first in lowering its rating and the second by placing hers on review for a reduction in the name of the uncertainty surrounding the outcome of negotiations between Greece and its creditors.

On Thursday night, a preparatory meeting of senior officials of the eurozone had no license Advanced because Athens positions and those of other countries were clearly irreconcilable. More …