Tsipras apresenta programa no domingo às 18 horas. Grécia está numa “posição terrível” / Tsipras Scrambles to Find a Way Forward for Greece / Bloomberg.

“Segundo o jornal online grego Macropolis, Atenas tentará um acordo de curto prazo que inclua um compromisso de ambos os lados para que não haja acções unilaterais, a possibilidade de aumento do limite de emissão de bilhetes do Tesouro, a devolução de lucros da compra de obrigações gregas pelo BCE, e uma promessa de um acordo a quatro anos com cumprimento de metas fiscais, um plano de combate à evasão fiscal, luta contra a corrupção e reforma da Administração Pública.”

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Tsipras apresenta programa no domingo às 18 horas. Grécia está numa “posição terrível”

Ana Pimentel /7/2/2015, OBSERVADOR

Primeiro-ministro grego vai apresentar o programa de governo no domingo às 18 horas. Economista Nicholas Economides diz que Tsipras terá de "reverter ou aparar severamente" programa eleitoral.

É este domingo, pelas 18 horas de Lisboa, que Alexis Tsipras, primeiro-ministro da Grécia, apresenta o programa de governo ao Parlamento grego, depois do périplo que levou Tsipras e Yanis Varoufakis, ministro das Finanças, numa viagem pela Europa. Objetivo: conseguirem um acordo para um programa transitório até maio, para que seja encontrada uma solução para a dívida pública grega. Com a pouca vontade europeia, Tsipras vai agora dizer qual é a solução para o problema.

Nicholas Economides, professor de Economia na Universidade de Nova Iorque disse à Bloomberg que considera “muito pouco provável que a Zona Euro dê novo dinheiro à Grécia nos próximos meses”, o que faz com que o país fique numa “posição terrível”, tendo que “reverter ou aparar severamente” aquelas que tinham sido as suas promessas eleitorais.

Duas semanas depois de ter sido eleito, o primeiro-ministro grego sabe agora que não pode contar com um acordo com os alemães e que na próxima quarta-feira vai haver reunião de emergência do Eurogrupo para debater a questão da Grécia. Por enquanto, o presidente do Eurogrupo já afirmou que não há empréstimos ponte.

Tsipras Scrambles to Find a Way Forward for Greece

by Nikolaos ChrysolorasEleni ChrepaCorina RuheMarcus Bensasson / http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-07/tsipras-charts-path-forward-for-greece-as-funds-at-risk

(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will outline his plans to keep Greece financially afloat while breaking free from its bailout program when he addresses the nation’s parliament on Sunday.

“It is very unlikely that the euro zone will give new money to Greece for months, as the Greek positions are uncertain and significant negotiation is necessary,” Nicholas Economides, professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said by e-mail. “This puts cash-strapped Greece in a very dire position.”

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the group of 19 euro-area finance ministers, on Friday rejected a short-term financing agreement while Greece negotiates a successor program to its current bailout provided by the European Union and International Monetary Fund. The prime minister will need to address doubts about Greece’s ability to pay its bills, possibly as early as the end of the month.

Tsipras will set out measures for the government to take from now until the end of June, corresponding to the bridge program it has requested from country’s creditors, a government official said after a cabinet meeting Saturday. The prime minister will also set out policies for the next 3 1/2 years, said the official, who commented by e-mail and asked not to be identified in line with policy. The speech is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. local time.

Negotiations Necessary

Tsipras, 40, will be addressing lawmakers exactly two weeks after his Syriza party swept into power with a promise to reject EU demands for more budget austerity.

“Faced with financial reality, the new Greek government will have to reverse or severely pare down its pre-election program,” Economides said. “Already, in a major U-turn, the government has abandoned the position that Greece will not fully pay its debt.”

The next showdown with Greece’s EU partners is scheduled for Feb. 11 in Brussels, when Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis faces his 18 euro-area counterparts in an emergency meeting.

Standard & Poor’s lowered Greece’s long-term credit rating one level to B- and kept the ratings on CreditWatch negative.

The rating downgrade to B- pushes Greece’s debt six levels into non-investment grade, or junk status. S&P said it plans to “update or resolve” the CreditWatch status by next month.

“We could lower our ratings on Greece if we perceive that the likelihood of a distressed exchange of Greece’s commercial debt has increased further because official funding has been curtailed, government borrowing requirements have deteriorated beyond our expectations, or Greece’s external financing has come under greater stress,” S&P said in a statement on Friday.

Stocks, Bonds

Greek stocks and bonds rebounded at the start of last week after the government dropped its debt writedown demand. The trend reversed on Feb. 5, and the yield on 10-year bonds jumped 42 basis points to 10.11 percent on Friday, with the Athens Stock Exchange index falling 2 percent, after Dijsselbloem rejected the bridge financing.

The U.S. urged Greece to exercise fiscal prudence and continue structural reforms in meetings between U.S. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary Daleep Singh, Varoufakis and other Greek officials in Athens Friday, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement on its website.

‘Very Important’

“The United States believes that it is very important for the Greek government to work cooperatively with its European colleagues, as well as with the IMF,” U.S. Ambassador to Greece David Pearce said in the statement.

Greece’s goal remains to achieve a bridge program that would give it time to negotiate with its creditors and devise a three- to four-year fiscal plan, a Greek government official said, asking not to be named in line with policy. This program wouldn’t include more loans from its bailout creditors, he added. Instead, the government wants to be able to increase its stock of Treasury bills beyond its current limit of 15 billion euros ($17 billion) to cover any extraordinary financing needs that arise, the official said.

Varoufakis has said his government won’t accept any more cash under the terms of Greece’s existing bailout, leaving 7 billion euros of potential aid on the table, rather than complying with demands for more austerity attached to the country’s international bailout agreement.

The standoff may leave Europe’s most-indebted state without any funding as of the end of this month, following the Jan. 25 election victory of Tsipras’s Syriza party.

To contact the reporters on this story: Nikos Chrysoloras in Athens at nchrysoloras@bloomberg.net; Eleni Chrepa in Athens at echrepa@bloomberg.net; Corina Ruhe in Amsterdam at cruhe@bloomberg.net; Marcus Bensasson in Athens at mbensasson@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Vidya Root at vroot@bloomberg.net Kevin Costelloe, Andrew Atkinson