Tyske politikere skeptiske overfor græsk forslag

Fra Guardian.

German politicians have been reacting through the morning to the Greek proposals, and all of them are voicing scepticism.

First up this morning on the state broadcaster ZDF’s Morgenmagazin programme, was Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, vice president of the European Parliament, and a member of Germany’s liberal FDP .

Kate Connolly watched the interview and has translated the most salient points:

Lambsdorff said he had been studying the document this morning, but felt that several issues were missing from it:

“for example there’s nothing in there about the roll of the Orthodox Church, which is after all, the biggest landowner in Greece. There’s little about reform of the financial authorities and that is a very decisive question, because whether you set the corporate tax at 26% or 28% is in the end not nearly so important as whether you actually collect it. That is the problem. Several important things are missing in this programme.”

To ZDF’s question as to what the difference was between these proposals and what the Greeks turned down at the referendum, Lambsdorff said:

“That’s precisely the point. That is the core issue here. And it is also the reason why we in the FDP say how can… a Tsipras government that allowed precisely this programme to be rejected by his people with 61%, now stand again in front of the people and credibly say: ‘we’re doing all of that afterall’ and then to credibly stand up on the international stage and say: ‘yes, we take ‘ownership’, as it’s called – we’ll take that on board as our responsibility and implement it’.

Lambsdorff added that he was sceptical that the Greek problems were anyway near to being solved.

“He has Frau Merkel and Herr Schäuble precisely where he wants to have them…that might put pressure on them to give in, but I think that cannot possibly happen. A third bailout with a haircut in the Eurozone – that will not solve the Greek problems.”

Lambsdorff isn’t the only one voicing doubts: