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Holanda rechaza en referéndum el tratado de asociación de la UE con Ucraniahttp://app.nos.nl/datavisualisatie/referendum-2016/62% NO38% SIcon un 32,2% de participación, más del 30% requerido para que sea válido.
-- "C'est pas possible !" que en Paris no hubiera un 15 M. Pues ahí lo tienen.
Cita de: saturno en Abril 08, 2016, 14:01:07 pm-- "C'est pas possible !" que en Paris no hubiera un 15 M. Pues ahí lo tienen. Por su bien, esperemos que no sea un 15M. Si lo es, en breve dejarán de hablar de lo crucial, estarán haciendo sub-asambleas sobre lenguaje sexista o especismo, y se irán a casa a twittear porque un nuevo partido llamado Pouvons les prometerá arreglarlo todo por ellos.
JAMES ROBINSON | PROFESOR DE HARVARD“El referéndum del ‘Brexit’ es una estupidez”El prestigioso politólogo y economista, coautor de ‘Por qué fracasan los países’, advierte del auge del proteccionismo y del nacionalismo en estos díashttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/04/08/actualidad/1460136509_781535.html
This past April 2, 2016, Wikileaks released transcripts of a secret teleconference among IMF officials that occurred on March 19. In it, leading IMF directors expressed concern that discussions between Greece and the IMF’s Troika partner, the European Commission, on terms of implementing last August’s deal were going too slowly. The Eurozone and Greek economies have been deteriorating since last August. Still more austerity would thus be needed, according to the discussions among the IMF participants in the teleconference. And to get Greece to agree, perhaps a new ‘crisis event’ would have to be provoked.The original August 2015 deal called for Greece to introduce austerity measures that would result in a 3.5% annual GDP budget surplus obtained from spending cuts, tax hikes, and public works’ sales needed to make the debt repayments to the Troika. But the IMF’s latest forecast for 2016 is that Greece in 2016 would have a -1.5% GDP budget deficit, not a 3.5% budget surplus. And 2015, for which numbers are not yet available, was probably even worse. Getting from -1.5% or worse to 3.5% was thus virtually impossible, according to the IMF discussants on March 19, and therefore additional austerity measures were necessary.
THOMSEN: So the program is not financed and contingent debt relief... the debt relief is not coming either, because they are not on track to meet the criteria. That is the whole point.They essentially need to agree to make OUR targets the baseline and then have something inthat they hope that will overperform. But if they don't, they will still disburse. Right?VELKOULESKOU: Yeah, that's right.THOMSEN: They are not going to agree to that.VELKOULESKOU: No. The first question is when is this thing going to be even discussed. Right?Somebody needs to discuss it. I know Thomas Wieser is setting up a call on the 30th of thismonth.
THOMSEN: Well, I don't know. But this is... I think about it differently. What is going to bring it allto a decision point? In the past there has been only one time when the decision has beenmade and then that was when they were about to run out of money seriously and to default.Right?VELKOULESKOU: Right! THOMSEN: And possibly this is what is going to happen again. In that case, it drags on until July,and clearly the Europeans are not going to have any discussions for a month before theBrexits and so, at some stage they will want to take a break and then they want to start againafter the European referendum.VELKOULESKOU: That's right.THOMSEN: That is one possibility. Another possibility is one that I thought would have happenedalready and I am surprised that it has not happened, is that, because of the refugee situation,they take a decision... that they want to come to a conclusion. Ok? And the Germans raisethe issue of the management... and basically we at that time say "Look, you Mrs. Merkel youface a question, you have to think about what is more costly: to go ahead without the IMF,would the Bundestag say 'The IMF is not on board'? or to pick the debt relief that we thinkthat Greece needs in order to keep us on board?" Right? That is really the issue.VELKOULESKOU: Correct!VELKOULESKOU: When is that going to happen? I don't know, I am surprised that it has nothappened yet. I would, for the sake of the Greeks and everyone else, I would like it tohappen sooner rather than later. VELKOULESKOU: I am hoping it's going to happen with these debt discussions that are starting inmid April.THOMSEN: But that is not an event. That is not going to cause them to... That discussion can go onfor a long time. And they are just leading them down the road... why are they leading themdown the road? Because they are not close to the event, whatever it is.VELKOULESKOU: I agree that we need an event, but I don't know what that will be. But I thinkDijsselbloem is trying not to generate an event, but to jump start this discussion somehowon debt, that essentially is about us being on board or not at the end of the day.THOMSEN: Yeah, but you know, that discussion of the measures and the discussion of the debt cango on forever, until some high up.. until they hit the July payment or until the leaders decidethat we need to come to an agreement. But there is nothing in there that otherwise is goingto force a compromise. Right? It is going to go on forever.VELKOULESKOU: It will, yes, until July, if nothing happens beforehand. I agree.THOMSEN: OK. I don't know, let's see. I hope for the sake of the Greeks that we are going to finda solution soon... I mean, let's face it, you guys are not going agree on ... these discussionsthat you have out there, they're not going to lead to... they are not going to come around toaccept our views. Right? They are not!VELKOULESKOU: No, they are not... THOMSEN: And they are not even getting close. Right?VELKOULESKOU: They are not getting close. What is interesting though is that they did give in...they did give a little bit on both the income tax reform and on the.... both on the tax creditand the supplementary pensions. They are doing something but it is very small...THOMSEN: Well, if they come around to give us the 2.5% and not on Mickey Mouse stuff, weshould be fully behind them.VELKOULESKOU: I agree. There is a scenario out there that they get pressured enough, that theywould... I think actually politically for them it is possible to give on both of these things. Butthey don't have any incentive and they know that the Commission is willing to compromise,so that is the problem. In a way we went into this negotiation with the wrong strategy,because we negotiated with the Commission a minimal position and we cannot go furtherand the Commission is just starting from this one and is willing to go much further. So, thatis the problem. We didn't negotiate with the Commission and then put to the Greekssomething much worse, we put to the Greeks the minimum that we were willing to considerand now the Greeks are saying "Well we are not negotiating". I agree with your concern thatthis date is bad for us because we will get stuck as you say, so we need to think about itwhen we are back.THOMSEN: They only comfort I have is that you cannot hang out there forever. You will have towrap it up before the spring meetings.VELKOULESKOU: Yeah, we need an agreement with the Europeans of an exit date. We need tomake it very explicit with the Europeans and with the Greeks, before we go back.
Stand by for another euro crisis
Once again the government is having to manage its negotiations with its creditors amid cash woes. “The situation is not as bad as it was last year,” ministry officials poignantly noted, while making it clear that the problem has already started. This month a hole of 500 million euros was filled using repos, with the Bank of Greece taking a short-term loan from state entities with available cash.
That way, officials at the State General Accounting Office expect the cash reserves to last up to the first 20 days of May.