Monday, March 16, 2015

Greece: Merkel calls Tsipras to calm things down – L’Express

A high-voltage visit. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit next Monday in Berlin for his first visit to Germany since taking office. It’s Chancellor Angela Merkel who invited in a context of increased diplomatic tensions between the two countries, announced Monday the Greek government. The interested party has accepted the invitation.

The announcement of this movement in Germany may sound like an appeasement by the two leaders. The war of words has indeed continued to grow between Athens and Berlin for a week amid fierce European negotiations about the government’s economic program of radical left Syriza.

Greece wants to overcome the austerity measures accompanying the financial support of its eurozone partners, while the latter, led by Germany, are reluctant to release the pressure on the country .



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The Government Calendar of Alexis Tsipras has increased the antagonism Berlin reviving the issue of war reparations owed by him by Germany Greece. As well as many Greek leaders have attacked the German politicians, including the Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, accused of carrying out a hard line against Greece among the countries of the euro area.

In an interview Monday, Alexis Tsipras himself in question, without naming them, “forces who would prefer confrontation to allow the continuation of austerity and, for this reason, block the implementation of the agreement of 20 February “agreement decided to further financial aid to Greece.

But the payment of $ 7.2 billion in international aid that materialize the continuation of this aid is suspended on the implementation by the Government Tsipras concrete reforms. However, Greece is facing a tight schedule of financial obligations that make its precarious situation without providing liquidity.

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