French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, addressing both the European and the Greek side, just a few hours ahead of today’s critical Eurogroup, made a plea to respect the Greek voters’ mandate as well as the Greek government’s reform commitments. In an interview with French radio “Europe 1,” Fabius said he is expecting the Greek delegation’s reforms program proposal aiming to development. The French Foreign Minister underlined that “there should be a twofold respect for the Greek issue: respect of the vote of the electoral body, which voted against a perpetual austerity, and respect Greece’s commitments for reforms.” Furthermore, regarding the previous unfruitful negotiations between Greece and its European loan partners, he stressed that “we had discussions that at the beginning yielded no results.” Although, Fabius appeared optimistic for the upcoming discussions, pointing out that “now we move a bit, because the Greek Prime Minister said that 70% of the previous reform program can be maintained and thus a 30% is to be discussed. I hope that a solution can be found. France is working in this direction. The Greek government should tell us its own reform program that will ensure development. There are already positive results in the primary surplus. Then we will certainly discuss the debt, with no possibility of a ‘haircut.’ But the technocrats can discuss about what they call ‘maturity.’ But it should all be done very quickly.”
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