Greek proposal is not enough to reopen negotiations

HILSINKI – July 12 – Prime Minister Juha Sipilä (center.) According to Finland does not consider the proposal made by the Greek Law no sufficient basis for supporting the opening of negotiations. According to Sipilä lot has to happen, that a step forward.

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä not during the day directly answer the question, whether Finland is ready to begin negotiations for support, if support can be tightened its terms and conditions.

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– Let’s see now, what is the end result. It is a joint decision on the euro-zone countries, the way forward, said Sipilä afternoon in Parliament in connection with the Grand Committee meeting.

Finance Minister Alexander Stubb (Nat.), He would not in Brussels issued a clear position on whether Finland is ready to begin negotiations with the support of Greece. Stubb said that the EU can never be completely unconditional.

– We do not have any kind of threshold questions. We assume that the need to find a sustainable solution. That solution implies that Greece is credible proposals on the table.

STT’s data suggests that the True Finns have made the opening of the Greek bailout negotiations, the government question. President of the True Finns, Timo Soini does not comment on the matter.

Sipilä assured the parliament during the day that the government’s Greece-alignment is unanimous. According to him, the government has not natissut the joints, but the media has been buoyed by rumors.

Sipilä also estimated that Finland’s approach is not necessarily the most stringent Greece negotiations.

Finland yesterday’s Greece-Axis no changes were made at the day of the Grand Committee of Parliament at the meeting, told the Committee President Anne-Mari Virolainen (cons.).

Euro area finance ministers are discussing additional support for Greece in Brussels today. Euro area Heads, in turn, to start meeting at 17 am Finnish time.

The Grand Committee is meeting again at 16.15, ie before the euro-zone countries principals meeting. A meeting of the Grand Committee is expected data in the euro countries’ finance ministers meeting.

The negotiations are difficult not only for Finland, because, inter alia, Germany, the Baltic countries and Slovakia have strong doubts about the Greek government’s promises. Finance Minister Alexander Stubb, yet not be far from the goal.

– This is run on Greek marathon and is now only in its infancy, Stubb said in the Finnish media this morning in Brussels.

Negotiations are now continuing on the basis that Greece must bring new commitments and legislative proposals on the table. The German media, the German Ministry of Finance suggests that Greece should support the negotiations in exchange to sell state assets worth € 50 billion.

According to Stubb, Finland’s premise is that Greece needed a very strong commitments and keep them obtain the approval of the Greek Parliament. Greece should be to restore confidence in the fact that it takes the support of the negotiations in exchange for legislation on the implementation of economic reforms. On the other hand Greece should commit to 10 to 15 “very strict condition ‘, which is all to be pushed through Parliament.

According to Stubb, the eurogroup meeting seeks to provide a base paper, which would be deprived of the summit starting later today, euro-zone countries leaders.

Brussels Eurogroup meeting of the previous comments focused on the lack of confidence in Greece and the achievement of disbelief agreement.

– We can agree on recommendations to the Heads of State, but that’s all. Lack of confidence is too big, in order to reach an agreement today, said the Slovak Minister of Finance Peter Kazimir their way to the Eurogroup meeting.

Also in charge of EU Commission Vice Chairman EUR Valdis Dombrovskis considers it unlikely that the Eurogroup would decide the opening of the third package of the negotiations in Greece.

EU Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici stressed the need for Greece to commit to reforms in the decisions to be made and the agreement achieved. Mr Moscovici, the world is waiting for, that the euro countries will reach an agreement through which Greece is obtained as part of the reforms in the euro countries.

Euro area finance ministers of Greece negotiated a new loan program for the possibility yesterday of nine hours without reconciliation. The lack of confidence towards Greece was raised at that time. President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem described yesterday yesterday’s and today’s negotiations very difficult and said that much work is still in progress.

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