“We all want Greece to succeed” out of the crisis, he said in Washington, but said that the eurozone was “better equipped in 2012, 2011, 2010″ if the situation was worse.
The president of the European Central Bank speaking at the semi-annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.
They were an opportunity for several high-flying financial executives to turn up the pressure on Athens, demanding reforms and relativizing the economic impact that a deterioration of the situation.
” restore dialogue “
Mario Draghi has found it necessary to” re-establish dialogue, “while international creditors expect Greece a list of reforms before issuing country assistance 7.2 billion, of which it badly needs.
The head of the ECB requested “Figures” reforms, and demanded that the government of the radical left Syriza is attentive to “the budgetary impact” its proposals.
Refusing to speculate on a default of Greece, stands almost certain to exit the euro, Mario Draghi stressed however that the eurozone was equipped with instruments face the risk of contagion, which “would be used in case of escalation of the crisis.”
Discussions skate Creditors
But he acknowledged that the eurozone would come “in unknown territory “if the Greek crisis worsened.
Before him, the US, Germany and France had complained too little progress in discussions on reforms in Greece.
(With AFP)
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