“[Russian President Vladimir] Putin said himself during the media conference that nobody asked for our help. Naturally energy cooperation was discussed. Naturally, the parties of the high level talks agreed to work out all details of these issues at an expert level.
Russia didn’t offer financial help because it was not asked,” the spokesman told the Russian radio station Business FM (RT.com).
Citing Greek government sources, German DER SPIEGEL and Greek newspaper AGORA reported on Saturday, that Moscow would pay Greece 5 billion euro in advance for transit charges for the Russian – Turkish gas pipeline project. The unexpected financial injection was reportedly agreed between President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Moscow last week....[keeptalkinggreece.com]
19/4/15
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Deal with Russia not to resolve Greece economy troubles - Germany’s finance minister...
ReplyDeleteA deal that Greece is set to strike with Russia, according to media reports, will not help Athens to settle its economic problems, Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble told reporters on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
Commenting on media reports that an agreement between Moscow and Athens is allegedly to be inked in the foreseeable future, Schauble was certain it would not solve the problems Greece was faced with when the country was trying to fulfil the commitments of the memorandum of understanding concluded with European partners.
Earlier on Saturday, the German Spiegel online newspaper reported that Moscow would funnel a prepayment of three to five billion euros to Athens within the framework of a project for laying out a section of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline via Greece. Spiegel Online said that Greece was planning to seal a deal in energy with Russia next Tuesday. The deal is supposed to help Athens recover in a complicated situation amid the mothballed talks on state debt restructuring with the European Union, the online newspaper said........tass.ru
19/4/15