Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit on March 23 in Berlin for his first visit to Germany since taking office. According to a statement from the Prime Minister, the Minister has responded positively to the invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel, amid diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
The announcement of this movement Germany may sound like an appeasement by the two leaders. For a week, the war of words has steadily increased between Athens and Berlin amid fierce European negotiations about the economic program of the government of radical left Syriza.
increased antagonism
Greece wants to overcome the austerity measures accompanying financial assistance from its eurozone partners, while the latter, led by Germany, are reluctant to release the pressure on the country.
The government of Alexis Tsipras has also increased the antagonism Berlin reviving the issue of war reparations owed by him by Germany to Greece. Several Greek leaders have attacked the German politicians, including Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, accused of carrying out a hard line against Greece among the countries of the euro area.
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The financial assistance suspended reforms
In an interview Monday, Alexis Tsipras himself? even in question, without naming them, “ forces that prefer confrontation to allow the continuation of austerity and that, therefore, block the implementation of the agreement of February 20, “agreement decided to further financial aid to Greece.
But the payment of $ 7.2 billion in international aid that materialize continuing this aid is suspended implementation by the Government Tsipras concrete reforms. Greece faces a tight schedule of financial obligations that make its precarious situation without the use of cash.
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