Tsipras takes Brussels for a “soft spot”
International lenders for the 4-th time with 2009 year require the Greek government to reduce the size of pensions and social benefits, increase the value added tax and implement state assets in the framework of privatization. If Greece does not go to these "reforms", then the European Commission, the IMF and the ECB are frightening the Greeks with a default. However, this horror story does not particularly scare Athens, since in the event of a default in Greece, an additional impulse may arise for the country's exit from the eurozone, and therefore a threat to the entire European economy, which already is going through hard times. Many citizens of Greece are confident that the EU itself will not go for the recognition of the Greek economy as a default, continuing to provide assistance to the country.
According to Alexis Tsipras, the referendum may take place on July 5. If the Greeks favor the continuation of the course of “tightening the belts,” then Brussels will allocate another aid package promised to Athens in the amount of 7,2 billion euros. Explicit attempt to bribe the Greeks. If the Greeks say no, then the EU will either have to give up financial assistance to Athens and put the very existence of the eurozone in its current borders into question, or else swallow the offense and, saving themselves, give Greece another loan.
In Athens, opposition forces have already announced that they will seek the resignation of the current government of Alexis Tsipras. For obvious reasons, such a figure at the head of Greece in the first place does not suit Brussels, whose interests the current Greek opposition serves.
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