Asked in Paris, during a meeting with the Organization’s Secretary General for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Angel Gurria, about the possibility of an agreement, Varoufakis replied, “I do not believe.” “Right now, it is the political leaders who must reach an agreement,” he added, quoted by AFP.
Greece must repay the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in about 1.5 billion euros at the end of June, and does not have enough money to meet this deadline while still paying civil servants and reforms.
Athens has to pay 7.2 billion euros of aid in the framework of a second bailout from the IMF and the euro zone, but lenders condition the payment of this sum to a reform program on which both parties They did not reach an agreement so far.
“This government was elected to defend the Greek people with a very ambitious reform program” Varoufakis said, adding that he hopes that this plan will be taken into account.
The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, who had declared the day before thinking he could still do “two or three gestures” against creditors, warned that “if Europe insists on reforms, must accept the price.”
An agreement, which could be found under a special European summit, perhaps on Sunday in Brussels, should be approved by the parliaments of many countries, including Germany, before June 30.
The French finance minister, Michel Sapin, estimated today turn a failure of negotiations with Athens, which could lead to the exit of Greece from the eurozone and even the European Union, “would be very serious for Greece but also extremely serious for European project “.
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