The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Thursday for the EU summit talked for almost an hour with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Afterwards he said that the negotiations should be accelerated in Brussels, so that the Eurogroup still before the end of April to take a decision on aid to Greece.
On the German side there was no comment. According Tsipras the conversation was constructive. He would also have a brief meeting with French President Hollande.
Informal consultations in Riga
Eind February the Eurogroup with the Greek government agreed that there had to be the end of April agreement on completion of the current Greek program and the reforms that come with it. On that basis, the euro countries, the ECB and the IMF still € 7.2 billion to borrow Athens, in several installments.
The discussions in the so-called Brussels Group, which was formerly known as the troika, but with extreme difficulty. There is even no prospect of a contract, according to EU officials. Therefore, the Eurogroup, which meets informally Friday in Riga, there still take a decision.
negotiate Nonstop
Tsipras would have said that Greece has now passed 70% of the way to a compromise against Merkel and the other Eurozone countries must now deliver the remaining 30%. If starting Saturday nonstop negotiation, an extra Eurogroup on 30 April to resolve the issue, according to the Greek.
The distribution 70/30 seems to refer to an earlier statement by Minister Yannis Varoufakis of Finance that the SYRIZA government can live with 70% of the previous government agreed reforms, but 30% else will. Other ministers say that he still has not made clear what measures are.
The Greek utility expire on 1 July. According to an EU official is that the real deadline.
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