Athens – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he was ready for a difficult compromise to allow a viable agreement with the country’s creditors, the EU and IMF, a government source said Saturday
If we can. a viable agreement, even if the compromise is difficult, we will meet this challenge because our only criteria is the exit from the crisis and the end of the submission to the memoranda + + (austerity measures), Alexis Tsipras said at a meeting Friday night with his staff, said in a government statement.
A Greek delegation to resume Saturday afternoon talks in Brussels with representatives of the creditors to try to agree on measures that Athens has to adopt.
This agreement is a necessary condition for the release of a tranche of international loans to the country, which would allow it to honor its debts and avoid default payments.
The Greek people trusted us (during the elections in January) so we make significant judgments and handles difficult situations, said the prime minister, stressing that no one believed that the situation would be easy.
The decisions and management belong to us exclusively, despite their difficulty, he added.
However, Alexis Tsipras warned that if Europe wanted the division and continuing to submission, it would also be up to us to refuse and say a big not fighting for the dignity of the people and national sovereignty.
Crunch time for Athens, which is short of money. The country needs by 18 June at the meeting of finance ministers of the eurozone (Eurogroup) to reach a compromise with creditors in order to secure financing and repay 30 June 1.6 billion euros to the IMF.
Among the difficult points of negotiation with creditors, which lasts for four months, included the pension reform, the VAT increase and the level of the primary budget surplus (excluding debt service), which determines the amount of savings to be made by the country.
The government said Friday that the difference on the issue of the primary surplus is only 0.25% Greece has already accepted a surplus of 0.75% for 2015, while the creditors wish to 1%.
On Saturday, Greek financial daily Naftemporiki, said that the Greeks were going to try a new compromise on the primary surplus by offering 0.9%
(© AFP / June 13, 2015 14:00).
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