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[tommy271]

Crisi:fondo salva-stati,Juncker,ancora nodi,ma intesa vicina


Rafforzamento Efsf e trattato Esm saranno varati a giugno



(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 17 MAG - Sul rafforzamento dello European financial stability facility (Efsf), l'attuale Fondo salva-Stati, e la messa a punto dello European stability mechanism (Esm), il meccanismo di salvataggio permanente che partira' dalla meta' del 2013, e' quasi fatta.
Ma non c'e' ancora un accordo.
Lo afferma il presidente dell'Eurogruppo, Jean-Claude Juncker, che assicura: l'accordo su entrambe i punti sara' raggiunto come previsto in giugno.
Sull'Esm (che sara' dotato di 500 milioni di euro), i ministri della zona euro - ha spiegato Juncker - hanno continuato ad esaminare il progetto di trattato istitutivo tra i Paesi dell'Eurozona.
Sono stati fatti dei progressi essenziali nel finalizzare il testo giuridico - ha aggiunto - e siamo vicini all'accordo.
Resta da chiarire solo qualche punto - ha proseguito - ma il trattato sara' firmato insieme all'accordo quadro raggiunto a suo tempo, in modo da avviare in tempo le procedure di ratifica nazionali e da fare entrare in vigore il nuovo meccanismo per la meta' del 2013''.
Anche per l'Efsf - la cui dotazione effettiva va aumentata a 440 miliardi di euro - ''abbiamo concordato gli emendamenti all'accordo quadro a suo temo siglato tra l'Efsf e i Paesi della zona euro, soprattutto quelli per permettere eccezionalmente l'intervento del fondo sul mercato primario dei titoli. Non abbiamo ancora deciso in via definitiva - ha concluso Juncker - ma anche in questo caso l'obiettivo e' di chiudere la partita a fine giugno, insieme a quella dell'Esm''.

 

[Nobody's]

Vorrei consigliare a qualcuno di togliersi per tempo da alcune posizioni.

Vi brucerete

"La Grecia non viene lasciata sola"

 

[Jessica.]

Vorrei consigliare a qualcuno di togliersi per tempo da alcune posizioni.

Vi brucerete

"La Grecia non viene l' asciata sola"

..speriamo che l'ascia non la usino per tagliare il nominale...

 

[tommy271]

Collateral in Euro Bailouts Backed by Ministers, Finland Says

By James Hertling and Kati Pohjanpalo - May 17, 2011 1:00 PM GMT+0200 Tue May 17 11:00:40 GMT 2011

Finland won European backing for its demand to require collateral from recipients of emergency aid, said Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen.
“No objections were made” by euro-area finance ministers at a meeting in Brussels yesterday, Katainen told reporters today. “There was no problem. I told them that Finland demands collateral if there will be new bailout packages.”
The requirement to provide security against new loans may apply to Greece, which is under pressure from Europe’s richer countries to go beyond current plans to sell 50 billion euros ($71 billion) in government assets. The Greek government may set up a new privatization agency to comply with the demands.
Katainen and his counterparts are discussing providing more aid to Greece and for the first time floated the idea of talks with bondholders about extending its debt-repayment schedule as last year’s 110 billion-euro rescue fails to restore the country to financial health.
“What’s essential is for Greece to stick to the current program and proceed with the privatization program,” Katainen said, declining to comment on remarks by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker that “reprofiling” Greek debt is being considered.
Katainen first made the demand in a joint statement last week with Social Democrat leader Jutta Urpilainen, saying Finland will require collateral from any nations seeking assistance from the European Financial Stability Facility after Portugal.



(Bloomberg)

 

[tommy271]

I TITOLI DEI GIORNALI:

The Eurogroup meeting on Monday, the Cabinet's decisions on upgrading central Athens and ministers' statements on civil servants' transfers, dominated the headlines on Tuesday in Athens' newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Cabinet's new measures for Athens".
AVGHI: "Sell-off and we will see...Troika's blunt blackmailing".
AVRIANI: "The blocking of the fifth installment and the new loan lead us towards default on payments suspension".
ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Layoffs via transfers in public sector".
ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: «Major blackmailing for sell-off immediately".
ESTIA: "Hour of truth for Greece - How Strauss-Kahn's arrest will affect Greece".
ETHNOS: "Brussels 'directive' for consensus".
IMERISSIA: "New measures sealed in - Brussels ask consensus from main opposition New Democracy".
KATHIMERINI: "EU imposes consensus as condition".
NAFTEMPORIKI: "European 'helping hand' and suffocating commitments".
RIZOSPASTIS: "They are imposing even heavier sacrifices on income, labor and insurance rights".
TA NEA: "Layoffs via ASEP (civil service hiring examinations board)".
VRADYNI: "Layoffs via ....ASEP".

(ana.gr)

 

[tommy271]

Cabinet meeting on action in Athens




ANA-MPA/A cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister George Papandreou, decided on Monday to appoint government vice president Theodoros Pangalos to coordinate action for downtown Athens and the handling of unklawful behaviour.
The measures decided include daily patrols that will also be assisted by members of the municipal police, targeted action by the Crime Prevention and Suppression Group, large operations of generalised police checks at least on a weekly basis, the creation of a bicycle road network and the turning of old hotels in central Athens into student dormitories.
Addressing the cabinet meeting, Premier Papandreou said, according to reports, that Athens is the place where the meaning of a democratic city was born but today the citizen lives isolated from the city.
The meeting focused on the existing problems in the centre of Athens and was also attended by Athens Mayor George Kaminis and Attica Regional Governor Yiannis Sgouros.
The prime minister said the condemnation of violence is not enough, stressing that a new enactment of democracy is required in the country that will secure institutions which will cultivate the citizens' participation.
"Our intervention does not aim simply at the centre's self-evident security but at the city finding its soul once again," Papandreou added.


(ana.gr)

 

[tommy271]

Plan for major overhaul of state sector





ΑΑΜΑ Briefing a cabinet meeting on Monday, Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis outlined his ministry's plans for a major overhaul of Greece's state sector that will transform it into a lean, efficient 'machine' that will not squander public money nor act as a dead weight and an obstacle to progress.
He stressed that human resources - the civil servants themselves - will be the main focus in this drive for a reformed state, which would be free of pockets of corruption and mismanagement.
Ragoussis said that the effort would require great political will and a willingness to ignore political cost, given the attitudes that dominate within the two main parties and high-ranking trade unionists concerning the civil service and broader public sector.
One of the pillars on which the new, reformed public administration will be based was the decision announced by the prime minister a few days earlier to convert the status of civil servants to that of 'employees of state', breaking down the barriers between each ministry and introducing evaluation mechanism for ministry staff.
Ragoussis noted that the more important change this introduced was not the power to fire employees but a process of evaluation that would reveal who was unfit to be in the civil service'. He expressed the opinion that the simple knowledge that they would be evaluated would prompt employees to "do their best" so that the majority would not fail such an evaluation.
"One of the major problems of the Greek state is that there is no such evaluation system for many years now, therefore no one ensures or has any incentive to perform better".


(ana.gr)

 

[tommy271]

Brussels Ask For Greek Consensus Politics



The troika is reportedly willing to implement the “model of Portugal” in Greece in order to progress the aid program. It would ask from the main opposition party to agree in black and white on decisions on Greek borrowing.

Following Eurogroup meeting on Monday, a political solution will be pursued for the Greek problem.

Note that the troika has set as a condition the commitment of all Portuguese political forces in order to agree on the country’s bailout program.

Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy notes:

-The political situation in Portugal was “special”, as the government announced election first and then asked for a bailout loan.

-Greece has a government with a comfortable majority in the parliament and the opposition party does not hamper its plan.

-The program to restart Greek economy that party leader Antonis Samaras presented is sufficiently clear and much more “bold” than government’s interventions.

-The argument that the plan must be voted by an increased majority of 180 votes because it exceeds the government’s service is hypocritical, as “every law also exceeds any government’s service, but no one asks for an increased majority”.

-Actually, both international lenders and government officials admit that the ruling party is unable to progress any further, because of internal dispute and errors, according to ND. Several officials consider inevitable the possibility of early elections.

(capital.gr)

 

[frmaoro]

comunque si riparte da capo tante chiacchere ma niente di concreto e chiaro si va al 24 giugno
questi greci devono capire che non ci sono più pasti gratis

 

[tommy271]

Greece open to "soft" debt restructuring if needed -vice min




Tue May 17, 2011 7:51am EDT



BEIJING May 17 (Reuters) - BEIJING, May 17 (Reuters) - Greece is willing to discuss the prospect of a "soft restructuring" of its debt if needed, its deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, but stressed that talks are not happening right now.
"If it's necessary, we will of course be willing to discuss such things," Spyros Kouvelis said, when asked about the chance of a "soft restructuring" of Greece's debt.
"These will be scenarios that we have to look at if need be," Kouvelis said in an interview in Beijing. "But I think this is a broader question for the whole euro zone that will have to be tackled by the euro group."
Kouvelis' comments came after euro zone officials said for the first time on Tuesday that Greece may have to ask investors to extend the maturities of the Greek debt that they hold, or agree to a "soft" restructuring, to give Athens more time to nurse its economy back into health.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers, said on Tuesday that Greek debt could undergo a "soft restructuring".
When asked if Athens has ran the idea of a "soft restructuring" of Greek debt by investors, Kouvelis said: "I am not aware of any such discussions yet."