We are working to find an agreement, but the rules must be respected. To say it is the premier Matteo Renzi, commenting during his visit to Germany, the developments of the situation in Greece: “What is happening is not the paradigm of the EU that we have in mind. We are engaged in minute by minute work for a satisfactory agreement to avoid a drama and the drachma. Bad rules are respected everywhere, they are also respected in Greece”.
For Renzi the main need is to trace “uthird way between irresponsibility and austerity”. A way that, according to the premier's words "is not in the Greek referendum but must be in the European agenda".
Still on the subject of the referendum, for the Italian premier, who spoke at the Humboldt University in Berlin, it is "a very risky political choice: it is said that on Monday if Tsipras's position won, the measures for citizens would be more simple or less fiscal. It is very difficult to know what will happen”. For Renzi, in all cases, it is not a question of a choice between austerity and growth, but "between the euro and the drachma".
Even the Minister of Economy Pier Carlo Padoan he keeps the doors open to a successful outcome of the negotiations with Athens: "As regards me and my colleagues in the Eurogroup, there is always the possibility of an agreement". "Unfortunately - according to the Italian minister - a lot of time was wasted and now it is about to expire".
For Padoan “Greece's debt profile is much less worrying than it is often described. What Greece needs is to return to growth and for this it needs trust, credit and specific structural measures”.
