This means a ‘no’ vote does not automatically Greece’s exit from the European monetary union, Dijsselbloem said. “There are still economic and political issues that are not resolved.”
In a report to parliament of the two most recent meetings of the finance ministers of the eurozone, not Dijsselbloem stressed that the Greeks illusion should cherish that Athens could negotiate better conditions for a financial aid package by ‘no’ vote.
“It just can not. You’ll have to take drastic measures in the budget in the economic structure in golden rules for all kinds of audiences. As the population declines, we can not support. That fact does not make sense, “said the minister.
The Greek population is consulted through a referendum Sunday on the last proposals from lenders to make viable the Greek economy. These proposals where about voting but not completed, incomplete and not ratified by the eurozone countries, said Dijsselbloem, and therefore substantively irrelevant.
However, the voice of the Greeks is still politically relevant, he said . According Dijsselbloem the Greek people can bridge the gap between the Greek government and the other eurozone countries, by showing that they want to work and the tough measures accept that the Greek situation inevitable.
The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and his leftist Syriza party trying to convince the Greek population a ‘no’ vote against the proposals of the financiers would strengthen the Greek negotiating position, without this would result in an exit from the euro.
“It’s not just the question: what do the Greeks?” Dijsselbloem said. “But the question is: what will make the people of the Netherlands, Portugal and Lithuania to help Greece?”
A no vote does not mean that the other eurozone countries against the Greeks will say: “They seek it out, “Dijsselbloem said. “That will not in any scenario, so.”
The minister also said that the debt relief the Eurogroup in 2012, held out the prospect, no longer on the table at this time, now that the negotiations on the support programs have yielded nothing. “That promise is not available at this time”, he said. “That can come back all over again after the referendum, I do not know.”
In 2012, promised the eurozone countries to consider a further reduction of the Greek debt, if Greece all the conditions of the support program would meet. By further reducing the interest rate would that burden may fall to a sustainable level of public debt of less than 110% of the gross domestic product of Greece in 2022.
Before the expiry of the Greek aid program on Tuesday said dijsselbloem repeatedly in public that the Eurogroup would hold the promise of 2012.
The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis accuses the Eurogroup no concrete promise of debt relief have to do in recent months. He mentioned that one of the reasons why the Greek government has given a negative voting recommendation for the referendum.
Varoufakis has announced he will resign if the Greek people Sunday yes “to the terms of the lenders , Bloomberg reported Thursday. Surveys by the results of the referendum are close together. Wednesday pointed to a poll ahead of the no-camp, but Thursday the yes voters seem to have the upper hand.
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