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Posted on October 26, 2012 by lucas2012infos | Leave a comment
Major eurozone crisis as Athens denied access to Nov 16th tranche
CRUNCH TIME
Surprise, surprise – the meeting that the EU flatly
denied would happen today just wound up. The output is the biggest
bombshell to hit the eurozone in a long time: Greece is to be denied
access to the next bailout tranche….unless more cuts and reforms beyond
those ‘agreed’ last Sunday are forthcoming.
In what looks to me like a pretty serious case of stabbing Antonis
Samaras in the front, news is breaking in Athens as I write that an
anonymous EU official has confirmed the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) report to the
Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) is damning about the cuts ‘agreed’ by
Athens last Sunday. This is a direct quote from the document: (my emphasis)
“It is clear that Greece is off track and there is no chance they
will cut the debt to 120 percent of GDP in 2020 as envisaged. It will be
rather 136%. New prior actions will be needed, on top of the existing
[ones] before any new tranches of eurozone and IMF emergency loans to Greece can be paid.“
Shortly after leaving the EWG meeting to leak its entire contents,
the eurocrat noted in addition that the costs of a two year extension
(the one Schäuble yesterday dismissed as “pure media speculation”) to
the Greek repayment schedule “are now seen at around 30 billion euros”.
As per the long-hold Slog view that some disguised debt foregiveness
would, in the end, be involved, the report also notes that ‘[debt]
restructuring could take the form of a further reduction of the interest
rate on existing loans to Greece and an extension of their maturities,
but while that would reduce financing costs, alone it would not fill the
funding gap’.
So, the good news is that a deal is on the table. The bad news is,
Greece hasn’t fulfilled its side of the bargain….assuming anyone in
Athens was ever clear WTF that abrgain was in the first place.
I cannot emphasise too much how significant a piece of news this is….so
significant in fact, that it’s been leaked just as most European
financial and media executives were drifting off for the Friday lunch
followed by another weekend of quiet denial in which to recover from
reality.
These are the immediate ramifications that occur to me:
1. The Samaras Coalition is dead in the water.
2. There will almost certainly have to be another election in Greece.
3. Allegedly, Greece will run out of money in ten days time. If it
isn’t going to get its next tranche of bailout monies, then direct
funding for Greece from eurozone member-states looks inevitable. This
would have to come from the eurozone’s
permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism. It will face
stiff opposition, especially from countries such as Finland, the
Netherlands and Germany.
4. Today’s leaker added that further bank liquidity is also a major
urgency. No doubt Mario at the ECB can muddle some more paper around to
fudge it, but his options are becoming limited.
5. French officials and bankers will be confined in order to deliver
large numbers of kittens about the possibility of Greek default….and the
subsequent high possibility of French State bankruptcy.
There is to be another emergency EWG meeting about Greece on Monday.
Doubtless Wolfie Schäuble will dismiss this one as ‘a fantasy’ too.
Meanwhile, the world – and I mean THE WORLD this time – waits to hear what the Merkeschäuble version of reality actually is.
www.hat4uk.wordpress.com link to original article
Thanks to: http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com
Posted on October 26, 2012 by lucas2012infos | Leave a comment
Major eurozone crisis as Athens denied access to Nov 16th trancheCRUNCH TIME
Surprise, surprise – the meeting that the EU flatly
denied would happen today just wound up. The output is the biggest
bombshell to hit the eurozone in a long time: Greece is to be denied
access to the next bailout tranche….unless more cuts and reforms beyond
those ‘agreed’ last Sunday are forthcoming.
In what looks to me like a pretty serious case of stabbing Antonis
Samaras in the front, news is breaking in Athens as I write that an
anonymous EU official has confirmed the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) report to the
Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) is damning about the cuts ‘agreed’ by
Athens last Sunday. This is a direct quote from the document: (my emphasis)
“It is clear that Greece is off track and there is no chance they
will cut the debt to 120 percent of GDP in 2020 as envisaged. It will be
rather 136%. New prior actions will be needed, on top of the existing
[ones] before any new tranches of eurozone and IMF emergency loans to Greece can be paid.“
Shortly after leaving the EWG meeting to leak its entire contents,
the eurocrat noted in addition that the costs of a two year extension
(the one Schäuble yesterday dismissed as “pure media speculation”) to
the Greek repayment schedule “are now seen at around 30 billion euros”.
As per the long-hold Slog view that some disguised debt foregiveness
would, in the end, be involved, the report also notes that ‘[debt]
restructuring could take the form of a further reduction of the interest
rate on existing loans to Greece and an extension of their maturities,
but while that would reduce financing costs, alone it would not fill the
funding gap’.
So, the good news is that a deal is on the table. The bad news is,
Greece hasn’t fulfilled its side of the bargain….assuming anyone in
Athens was ever clear WTF that abrgain was in the first place.
I cannot emphasise too much how significant a piece of news this is….so
significant in fact, that it’s been leaked just as most European
financial and media executives were drifting off for the Friday lunch
followed by another weekend of quiet denial in which to recover from
reality.
These are the immediate ramifications that occur to me:
1. The Samaras Coalition is dead in the water.
2. There will almost certainly have to be another election in Greece.
3. Allegedly, Greece will run out of money in ten days time. If it
isn’t going to get its next tranche of bailout monies, then direct
funding for Greece from eurozone member-states looks inevitable. This
would have to come from the eurozone’s
permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism. It will face
stiff opposition, especially from countries such as Finland, the
Netherlands and Germany.
4. Today’s leaker added that further bank liquidity is also a major
urgency. No doubt Mario at the ECB can muddle some more paper around to
fudge it, but his options are becoming limited.
5. French officials and bankers will be confined in order to deliver
large numbers of kittens about the possibility of Greek default….and the
subsequent high possibility of French State bankruptcy.
There is to be another emergency EWG meeting about Greece on Monday.
Doubtless Wolfie Schäuble will dismiss this one as ‘a fantasy’ too.
Meanwhile, the world – and I mean THE WORLD this time – waits to hear what the Merkeschäuble version of reality actually is.
www.hat4uk.wordpress.com link to original article
Thanks to: http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com
