Whether Greece will avoid a default?
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The IMF, Christine Lagarde, has warned that
it will not allow Greece to miss
Once the debt payment. these
She brushed off the statement again
the potential for some
concessions to the Greek government.
"We do not remember the case when developed
the economy would have asked deferred payment "
- Lagarde said Thursday in an interview
Bloomberg Television. -
"And I very much hope that Greece will not
form such a precedent. "
acute
problematic and contradictory information
Earlier this
month, Greek officials said
creditors of the likelihood that
money in the country will end and will have
skip the repayment term of the loan before
IMF. according to an agency source
Bloomberg, Minister
Finance of the country, said Yanis Varoufakis
in the course of negotiations with the IMF, what would happen if
Greece will miss a payment. In its turn,
in response to a Bloomberg query
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Greek Minister of Finance says that he
I never asked about the procedure of admission
and added that such assumptions
- an outright lie. Meanwhile, the April
Payment took place in the period.
Greece must
IMF to pay about 1 billion euros in May.
Payment will put Greece in a pass one
with a number of countries such as Zimbabwe,
Somalia and Sudan. Lagarde said that the IMF
30 years did not allow countries to delay
payment of debt. Skipping period will
represent a powerful reason
to lower the rating of Greece to the default
by S P. On criteria
This agency officials told
the press on Wednesday.
April
theses: new edition
risk of default
Greece as one of the risks for
the global economy was discussed at
Spring Meeting of the IMF and World Bank
this week in Washington. speaking
there Yanis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance
Greece has pledged to find a compromise,
which will revive the country's economy and
He stated that "the negotiations should be completed
successfully ", stressing that the Greek
the government "does not play" on the topic Output
from the euro zone.
He said,
that liquidity dries up in Greece,
urgent and extensive reforms,
but Greece is not ready to accept the conditions,
which will leave the country within the loop
permanent dependence.
"Is our
government more than anyone else
It was in need of successful completion
negotiations ", - said Yanis Varoufakis. -
"The key words here - successful
Finally, and not just another option
emergency expansion of the number of those
that in the last five years
transformed the Greek crisis into a drama
global significance. " The Minister said that
a reduction of pension benefits - not "
reform "Greece does not want to take
New privatization rules
still does not reduce the arrears, and
up IMF rules - "useless"
action in the case of Greece.
"We will go
to compromise again and again, that they might
agree, but we are not going to
ultimately prove to be again under
threat "- Yanis Varoufakis said, adding,
that complete agreement with partners
Eurozone it plans to achieve before the end of
of June.
sides
do not find mutual understanding
Conversation
to resolve the financial crisis
Greece must "intensify"
if the euro zone finance ministers
positively assessed the plan of reforms in the country
at its meeting on April 24th. "Today we
not satisfied with the progress of negotiations,
- Margaritis Shinas said speaker
European Commission. - "Now everything is discussed,
but we need it to happen
faster".
Greece until
so also did not provide a "full list
reforms ", which demanded that it
EU leaders last month. Meanwhile,
This list should be evaluated
The European Commission, the ECB and the IMF before
the country will receive additional payments
within supporting activities.
Minister
German Finance Wolfgang Schaeuble, in
said Wednesday that further concessions
Greece "eliminated", saying that
commitment to reform
were assigned to Greece is still the same
Government, and that these reforms was
needed to improve the country, and
not to like Tsipras, to give false hope
the people of Greece.
Schaeuble also
denied reports that his
agency working on a plan to
the preservation of Greece in the euro zone in the event of
default. He said that staff
Ministry of Finance of the largest
European country "is considering all
possible options".
honeyed
month was over, everyday life began
Meanwhile,
the new Greek government has already
faced with the first signs
domestic discontent with his policies. About 4,000 miners and
their families came to the rally on Thursday
the central square of Athens on Thursday,
protesting against the plan to withdraw the license
at a gold mine in the north of the country,
which will stop the investment in the project.
This is the first
massive street protests against
government since the elections 25
January which led Tsipras to power.
Opinion polls continue
show that the party Syriza
enjoys solid
advantage relative to opposition
parties and the majority of its Greek
support, but this support has
It is on the wane.
"Honey
month is over, "- said Nikos
Marantidis, sociologist and professor
Political Science at the University of Thessaloniki.
- "It does not mean that the hegemony of Syriza
- subject of the dispute, but we
have already passed the period when Greek
public opinion blindly agrees
with everything the government does. "
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