The Greek Press has already dubbed it “the 5 most critical days in Greece's post WWII history”. As the Athens government seems to be once again in a collision course, after yesterday's special EuroWorking Group meeting, allegedly convened at the request of German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, “crashed and burned” according to a source close to the participants.
While the “institutions” technical representatives in Athens reacted negatively to the introduction of the “humanitarian” law introduced to the Greek Parliament and to the law offering a settlement of tax arears in 100 installments as to facilitate payment, viewing them as “unilateral measures”, The Greek prime minister called the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, asking him to arrange a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Francois Hollande, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during the 2 day European Summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. This meeting, with the participation of Tusk himself, was finally scheduled for 8pm Thursday.
According to the Greek government spokesman, Gavriil Sakellaridis, "we will aim to clarify the Feb. 20 accord with the Eurogroup and how it will be accompanied by the provision of liquidity to the Greek economy."
Donald Tusk has refrained of putting Greece in the official agenda of the European Summit, saying in his first interview to 6 major European newspapers that he has avoided calling a Eurozone summit about Greece because he fears that it could degenerate into open conflict between Greece and Germany.
“Can you imagine in the worst moment discussions between the chancellor and prime minister Tsipras? It would be useless,” he said.
The Greek government, is accusing the “institutions” of undermining the 20 February Eurogroup agreement and, facing serious liquidity problems, is seeking a solution at a “political” level. Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, will meet German Chancellor, Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, 23 March and he has brought forward by a month his visit to Moscow where he will meet with Russian president, Vladimir Putin on 8 April.
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