Oppermann warns Schaeuble prior to a new Greece-Poker – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Berlin (dpa) – the SPD Faction leader Thomas Oppermann warned German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) in front of it, the Euro-crisis country, Greece, is bad to talk.

“Especially in the current difficult Situation in Europe, crisis escalation is dangerous,” said Oppermann, the German press Agency. “That’s also why I rate Mr Schäuble of a renewed public campaign in the summer of 2015, against Greece.” At the time, Schäuble was Athens at the peak of poker’s new billions in aid with a temporary expulsion from the Eurozone threatened.

Schaeuble is not willing to let go of, despite the upset at the coalition partner SPD. Greece is not out of the woods yet, said the CDU politician on Wednesday evening in the ARD. “That’s why the pressure on Greece must remain, to make the reforms and to be competitive. Otherwise, you will not be able to remain in the currency Union.”

the sticking point is the question of whether the International monetary Fund (IMF), the Greece-aid to the Board. It was agreed a Central condition for the third package of assistance, the Union and the SPD in the Bundestag. Now the IMF could get out. Oppermann hopes that it comes to that: “I believe in a participation of the IMF in the framework of the Troika (with the ECB and the EU Commission) is desirable. The IMF has been a great deal of Expertise to make crisis countries fit again.” Although Greece in budget making is now a primary surplus (budgetary surplus excluding interest payments on debt) would have to go to the reforms in Athens. The value is for the donor, an important Benchmark to judge whether Athens is again in the long term be able to Finance government spending and its debt.

The payment of further aid billion from the third rescue program depends on a Reform-progress report, be delayed for a long time. 20. In February, the Finance Ministers come together in Brussels to discuss the situation. Without fresh capital, its creditors, Greece would quickly be insolvent. So, Athens will have to pay in July, two billion euros to private investors, as well as around four billion euros to the European Central Bank (ECB). In August, a further 1.6 billion euros to the Euro bailout Fund ESM is due.

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