Alexis Tsipras meets Vladimir Putin in Moscow – Boursorama

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens March 25, 2015 (AFP / File / Louisa Gouliamaki)

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is host to Putin Wednesday as part of a two-day visit to Moscow in negotiations with the country’s creditors, the EU and the IMF, and to the dismay of its European partners.

Mr. Tsipras, taxed by some Trojan analysts of Russia in Europe why some decision conciliatory position towards Moscow, arrived Tuesday night in the Russian capital.

There must be received Russian President at 13:00 local time (1000 GMT), after laying a wreath at the memorial of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. The next day he will discuss “economic and trade cooperation” with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and will speak to Russian students in international relations.

On the eve of the visit of Mr. Tsipras, Athens is desired reassuring Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis saying that the Greek crisis was “solved within the framework of the European family” way of saying that Greece was not looking for funding sources other than its European partners.

On the other hand, Greece grows, like the others, bilateral relations with third countries.

According to the Russian Ministry of Finance, no formal request for a loan Russia to Greece has also been addressed and no meeting between Mr. Tsipras and Russian Finance Minister is scheduled on the agenda.

“With this visit, Greece No ‘course will get no money to meet its financial abyss, “said Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Foreign Policy and Defense Council, based in Moscow.

According to the analyst, Moscow could without great difficulty, however, be a gesture to Athens raising its embargo on Greek food, decided last summer as part of Russian-against sanctions against the European Union.

The strategic question of gas could also be addressed, with the prospect of the extension to Greece of the proposed pipeline “Turkish Stream” between Russia and Turkey, or that Russian investments in Greece, particularly in the search for oil reserves submarine and the railway TRAINOSE .

– European Warnings Warning –

In a context of crisis in Ukraine has degraded the EU-Russia relations, the two-day visit of a European official in Moscow n ‘ not go unnoticed and warnings have been quick.

And, when the Greek government laboriously negotiates with creditors, EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the release of a tranche of vital support for its financial survival.

The European Parliament President Martin Schulz, interviewed this weekend by the German newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, asked Mr. Tsipras of ” not to upset its European partners “risking to break the unanimity of the European Union with respect to Russia.

Greece is one of the European countries opposed to sanctions against Moscow. Alexis Tsipras reiterated in an interview last week in the Russian news agency Tass, they “were going nowhere.”

In an interview with the Rheinische Post, the German Minister of Economy, Sigmar Gabriel, preferred minimize geopolitical uncertainty: “I can not imagine anyone in Athens is ready to turn its back on Europe to throw themselves into the arms of Russia,” he has said .

The European Commission is she merely recalled Tuesday that “trade policy is an exclusive competence of the European Union.”

“This visit is actually a signal psychological and Greek Prime Minister wants to send. A signal that Greece has other friends. The fact that Europe reacts as it does shows that it works, “said Fyodor Lukyanov.

C ‘ is also the preferred hypothesis Constantinos Filis, research director at the Institute of International Relations in Athens, that this visit is more the result of a “tactic” that a diplomatic turnaround.

“Greece needs the EU and Russia needs a Greece in the EU and NATO to eventually find support against criticism against him and economic sanctions” , he added.

More than “alternative” to its European roots, Greece sees Russia “additional card” in his diplomatic game “that can show that the country has several allies “said Mr. Filis.

Athens leads in this regard an all-out diplomatic tour to Europe as well as the United States, where is Mr. Varoufakis since Sunday, as to China.

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