Tsipras meets his government in full countdown – Boursorama

  
 * The Eurogroup meeting advanced two thirty * The Greek ministers evoke concessions refuse any “blackmail” * Merkel faces a “crucial choice” according Varoufakis ATHENS, June 21 (Reuters) – Several ministers of the Greek government, which meets Sunday blew hot and cold on Saturday in two days of a special summit of leaders of countries in the euro area intended to break the impasse in Negotiations on the Athens debt. Returning from a visit to Russia, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, elected in January on a promise to end austerity, gathered his team of negotiators and was scheduled to meet in the evening with the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, according to an EU official. No information was available about the interview but the president of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem has advanced two thirty (10:30 GMT instead of 1300 GMT), without explanation, the meeting of finance ministers the euro area which will precede the  extraordinary summit in Brussels on Monday (1700 GMT). The Greek government has meanwhile meet Sunday at 11:00 am (0800 GMT). Short of money, Athens has to find an agreement with its creditors (IMF, Commission and European Central Bank) by 30 June, the date of expiry of the international aid plan in progress and a maturity of 1 6 billion debt to the IMF. Near Alexis Tsipras, Alekos Flabouraris, Minister of State for coordinating the government project, said that Greece could “complete” in the coming hours the proposals to its creditors. ID: nL5N0Z608P In an article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the Minister of Finance says Yanis Varoufakis determining Athens to make new compromises while referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel the responsibility of a “difficult choice”. ID: nL5N0Z60HL As for Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis it promises in an interview with Greek Sunday newspaper Realnews, to resist the “blackmail” of  creditors. Several European ministers played down the prospect of a final agreement at the summit on Monday but they hope that a compromise will be found politically and pave the way for a technical agreement by the end of the month. In an interview with Journal du Dimanche, the French Finance Minister Michel Sapin urged Athens to “serious” proposals and “solid”, adding that a Greek default and an exit of Greece from the euro zone would have consequences unpredictable. “It is an unknown area. The risks are of unknown magnitude,” he said. ID: nL5N0Z60JD (Lefteris Papadimas with the editorial of Athens and Brussels, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French service) 
  

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