European leaders are at odds with Athens over protection for families at risk of losing their homes because of mortgage defaults
European leaders have told Greece that it must do more to prove it is pushing through the reforms its creditors have demanded before it can receive a €2bn (£1.4bn) aid payment.
The debt-stricken country has been at odds with its lenders over the protection it can offer families at risk of being made homeless because of mortgage defaults.
Greece clinched an €86bn bailout in the summer, in return for promising measures to reduce its deficit such as higher VAT rates and pension cuts. Its lenders have also demanded new laws to help banks repossess homes from people who cannot meet their loan repayments.
The new sticking point turned the buildup to a key Brussels meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday night into a series of tit-for-tat briefings reminiscent of the height of the bailout crisis earlier this year.
Greece’s EU peers continued to lament the pace of economic reform in Athens, while the country’s leftwing government under the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has stood by demands for social safeguards for its citizens. On the contentious repossession rules, it wants more first homes to be exempt.
At stake is the release of Greece’s next tranche of aid from its third bailout. Athens spent the weekend trying to persuade its creditors that it had met the terms agreed this summer to qualify for the much-needed cash. Ahead of the Eurogroup meeting, however, it appeared they were not convinced.
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/09/greece-told-to-do-more-on-reforms-before-it-gets-next-bailout-paymentIt is the same story. The Government of Tsipras will continue with its demagogy. Tsipras is convinced that have persuasive superpowers and that can hypnotize everyone. So he is convinced that without doing what must be made in order to have the promised money, the European leaders, at the moment that will see him will remain fascinated by his face, will open all the vaults full of money and will invite him to chose the kind of money he will want and the amount wanted (again by him).
Then Tsipras will wake up and will remember all its story as a Leader of Government which make all the Europeans to see him and its ministers like aliens comes from another world during all the period of contacts with them. Then will remember the story of the referendum won by him and celebrate all night long from the Greeks which had as finish the sign by him himself of an agreement much more severe than it not accepted by him himself and the referendum celebrated by more than 60% of all the Greeks.
When will come back at Earth such kind of being? When will understand that the Greece is in sore straits and needed hard and again hard and continuous work to do? When will understand that is a big shame the situation in which the State and the Greek people are? When will understand that cannot be possible to live with the money of the others and being proud of this like mean all its behavior and the majority of Greeks? When will be conscious that to pay the others for the money given or are willing to give again only to help that country and that people needed to be made deep and structural reforms in all the areas of Greek economy and State? How is possible to be so dandy in its behavior when have a mountain of work, troubles and big problems to withstand?
Only him can do such things. Personally become every day more convinced that with him in power the agony of Greeks will be much more longest and harder. The others before him were liars or thieves but never so stupids like is this.