| Series Title | EurActiv |
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| Series Details | 30.01.15 |
| Publication Date | 30/01/2015 |
| Content Type | News |
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Following far-left Syriza's victory in the Greek election on 25 January 2015, the EU Institutions tried to understand what would follow in terms of policies and attitudes, considering the challenges to come up with a compromise between the financial bailout conditions Greece committed itself to and the anti-austerity rhetoric of the new governing coalition in the country. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a newspaper interview on the 29 January 2015 that there was 'no question of cancelling the Greek debt'... 'The other countries of the eurozone will not accept it...'. European Parliament President Martin Schulz visited Athens on the 29 January 2015 for discussions with new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem visited Athens on the 30 January 2015 for meetings with Prime Minister Tsipras and Minister for Finance Yanis Varoufakis. 'Taking unilateral steps or ignoring previous arrangements is not the way forward', said Mr Dijsselbloem. Mr Varoufakis said 'we have no intention of co-operating with a three-member committee [ie the Troika of the EU/IMF/ECB] whose goal is to implement a programme whose logic we consider anti-European'. In an interview with the BBC Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, said that Greece belonged in the eurozone and the single currency depended on there being no 'Grexit'. German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected any idea of offering more debt relief to Greece in a newspaper interview published on the 31 January 2015. Some days later, the German government also rejected the idea to put an end to the troika of international creditors in Greece. Ahead of several meetings with several EU officials in Brussels on 4 February 2015 to further negotiate a new deal concerning Greece's debt [Click here to find more information on these meetings], Mr Tsypras visited Italy and got the support from his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi. On 5 February 2015, ande while Tsypras visited France, his finance minister was scheduled a meeting with the German counterpart. Media reported that both had disagreed in almost everything. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/juncker-rejects-greek-debt-write-311691 |
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| Countries / Regions | Greece |
