“Greeks will meet after the election agreements’ – NU.nl

"Greeks will meet after the election agreements' – NU.nl

That is a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. The country has previously made several pledges to claim a support program.

According to German government spokesman Greece has kept its commitments in the past and will continue to do so, even if after January 25 another government will. ” Every new government must adhere to the contractual obligations of the previous ” he said.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble dropped last week in similar terms in, after it became clear that Greece early elections is heading. These statements stand still, let his department know Sunday.

Grexit

The Merkel spokesman would not comment on a report in weekly Der Spiegel . The magazine reported Saturday on the authority of insiders that the German government now would find acceptable as a Greek exit from the eurozone.

Schäuble and Merkel are in Der Spiegel of the view that the eurozone much stronger position than at the height of the debt crisis in 2012. This is partly due to reforms in many countries and the joint supervision of banks.

As a result, the potential consequences of a so-called ‘Grexit’ would now be overlooked. Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis showed previously that they could not exclude an exit of Greece.

Risks

Economist Peter Bofinger, a key advisor to the German Government, however, warned a Greek exit from the eurozone.

” There are many great risks for the stability of the euro area to take such a step, ” he told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag . ” It would let a genie out of the bottle that is difficult to control. ”

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By: AFN