| Wall Street Journal | - |
FRANKFURT—Leading German politicians Saturday refused to grant Greece
further concessions in turn for additional bailout funds and said that
the parliament needs to vote on any further payments to the Southern
European country.
| Yahoo News | - |
German Vice Chancellor tells Greece that Europe has hit its limits
16 hours ago
Asked if he was expecting an agreement soon, Gabriel told German daily Stuttgarter Nachrichten: "That depends solely on the Greek government. Europe has gone up to its limits."
Gabriel said that there was a mood in Germany now for letting the Greeks just leave the euro zone.
"But this would get very expensive for certain," he said,
adding that Greece would remain a member state in the European Union no
matter what happened. "So there would still be the need for aid."
Gabriel, who is economy minister and also head of
Germany's Social Democrats, criticized Greek Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras.
"His
problem his that he's not willing to tackle the issues that need to be
solved. He'd rather put them onto the shoulders of the European
taxpayers. But this won't work."
Gerda Hasselfeldt, a
senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative allies
in Bavaria, told the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that Athens
now had to come up with detailed reform proposals.
"The current program must be implemented and it cannot be
changed into something else on the quiet," Hasselfeldt said.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber,)
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