While the French Parliament gave its green light to the aid plan for Greece, the Greek vote is now eagerly awaited. It must take place in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Seven other national parliaments must also rule. Find the thread of the events of that day below.
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10:08 p.m. A conference call of the Eurogroup be held on Thursday July 16 at 8 am GMT.
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8:18 p.m. The incidents took place on the Syntagma Square in Athens when the parliamentary debate began
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7:32 p.m. Francois Hollande welcomed the largely favorable vote of the French Parliament, and called on the Greeks to say “Yes” to the agreement with Europe. “This agreement will honor the Greeks and engage. We must be alongside the Greeks and we must ensure that the euro area which belongs to be protected us “.
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6:47 p.m. Yanis Varoufakis compares the Brussels agreement to the Treaty of Versailles. Former Greek Finance Minister referred Wednesday to the Versailles Treaty of 1919, which had imposed heavy repairs defeated Germany and contributed to the rise of Nazism, speaking of the agreement on Greek debt held Monday in Brussels. “The powerful have demanded that the vanquished agree to terms that they had no right to demand. And the vanquished have accepted the conditions they did not have the right to accept. These are the words of John Maynard Keynes on the Treaty of Versailles, “said Varoufakis during the parliamentary debate in Athens on the Brussels agreement.
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6:33 p.m. In detail about voting deputies, those of the Left Front voted unanimously against, as well as forty deputies Republicans , three environmentalists, two elected Chevènement The two deputies FN, an IDU. And refrained ten Socialists slingers, LR 35 MPs, 4 environmentalists.
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The Senate approved 6:23 p.m. in turn, the Brussels agreement by a large majority by 260 votes against 23 . For the record, the vote of French deputies and senators, who are the first in the eurozone to vote on the compromise reached Monday was not mandatory, contrary to what happens in countries like Germany, Finland Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia and Austria, very reluctant to this assistance.
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6:12 p.m. End of debate in the National Assembly. “For 412 votes against 69, the National Assembly approved the agreement between Greece and its creditors , announced Claude Bartolone, immediately after the vote. Of the 530 voters, 49 have therefore abstained.
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5:40 p.m. – Tsipras fails to convince the Greek parliament austerity vote Greek Prime Minister struggled. Wednesday convince MPs to approve the agreement reached with the creditors of Athens while the sling rumbled within his own party before the scheduled vote in the late evening.
In discussing the reforms in parliament, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, resumed his plea to his account. “This is a difficult agreement, an agreement that only time will tell if it is economically viable”, he said. Far from appeasing the wrath of the far left wing Syriza, this admission has galvanized opponents of austerity.
“The choice between a rescue plan or a disaster is a choice dictated by terror “denounced Panagiotis Lafazanis, Energy Minister and leader of” slingers “. Earlier Wednesday, the Deputy Finance Minister Nadia Valavani found “impossible” to remain in a government that will lead it believes the country on “a deadly path” and she resigned.
The president of parliament, Zoe Constantopoulou, another figure of the left wing Syriza, it has called on MEPs to resist “blackmail” by rejecting the austerity measures, refused by Greek voters in the referendum of July 5. “This parliament should not accept blackmail creditors,” she said
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5:37 p.m.. – The Paris Bourse ended on a positive note (+ 0.29%) Wednesday pending vote by the Greek Parliament of the agreement reached by the country with its creditors. The CAC 40 index took 14.77 points to 5047.24 points in a trade volume of 3.5 billion euros. The day before he had gained 0.69% signing its fifth consecutive session
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17h30 -. For Christian Jacob, “the only one responsible for this is Mr Tsipras’ . The group leader in the Assembly Republicans lambasted “the latest escapades of Greek Prime Minister ».
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16:30 – Manuel Valls reaffirmed that the Greek debt will be lightened Prime. Minister reaffirmed face members that the creditors of Greece would reduce its debt, a point that does not yet face categorically in the text of the agreement reached Monday at a summit of the euro area.
“The balanced treatment of debt, it is vital for Greece, so it can begin to consider a future that is not limited to one refund” found Manuel Valls. “The Eurogroup is considering measures to enable Greece to recover oxygen and ensure the sustainability of its debt which now stands at 180% of its wealth,” he said.
“This point was crucial to Greek Prime Minister, he got it (…) The IMF also said in recent hours that had alleviate the Greek debt and c ‘ is what we will do, reprofiling of Greek debt, “he assured, adding that this would pass either by extending the repayment term bills of Greece or by a reduction in interest rates.
Prime Minister also assured front of the Chamber that “this agreement is not a blank check” is to Greece. He then called for “a real economic government of the eurozone.”
And he castigated “those who want to [the] release [of Greece] Eurozone “.
According to him, not help the Greeks returned to jeopardize “the interests French taxpayers “who participated to the tune of” 40 billion “loan granted to Greece
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14.30 – Greece poses a ” risk “for the US economy , found Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed). “The situation abroad, in particular, poses certain risks to the US economy,” noted the ruling. The case of Greece remains “difficult”, despite the recovery “stronger” throughout the euro zone, she detailed.
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2:28 p.m. – Francois Hollande welcomed the “courage” of Alexis Tsipras. According to the spokesman of the government Stéphane Le Foll, during the Council of Ministers, Francois Hollande has “emphasized the courage of Alexis Tsipras who assumes the responsibility to support this agreement (…). He passes judgment on the agreement itself but at the same time he assumed the agreement. ” Hollande also described Alexis Tsipras as someone “brave” and “courageous”
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2:27 p.m.. – Stéphane Le Foll is “serene.” After the Council of Ministers, the spokesman of the government has sought reassurance about voting in the Assembly on the agreement signed Monday in Brussels. “We’re rather serene on the goal of getting the agreement despite certain positions,” he said.
He then rebuked the opposition leaders, including Nicolas Sarkozy, and their fluctuating positions on the Greek question. “Here we had the right to an anthology of change,” he was amused, “it is not the mark of the responsibility.” “There really lost all sense of reality,” he continued. “If we had listened to others who changed four times of positions (…), what would have happened? “.
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2:10 p.m. -. Strike against austerity in Greece In order to protest against the agreement Creditors imposing additional austerity measures, officials and pharmacists went on strike on Wednesday. A few thousand people marched through central Athens to demand the rejection of the agreement on which the Greek parliament must decide in late afternoon and say “no” to the policies of the European Union, the Central Bank European and International Monetary Fund
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Other events are planned later in the day but the reaction of the street to the new austerity measures, though rejected by a large majority at the referendum of July 5, has so far been limited and believe a poll released Tuesday, 70% of Greeks want the ratification of the agreement by Parliament
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14.00 – The environmental group is divided on the vote, half approving the agreement reached at the EU summit and the other rejecting, abstaining or not participating in the vote, according to a source group. Nine deputies, including the two co-chairs Barbara Pompili group and François de Rugy, will vote for. Two voting against (Isabelle Attard and Noël Mamère) and seven, including Cécile Duflot abstain or not participate in the vote. “No one believes that this is a good agreement, but there are differences over the consequences of the vote,” summed up the source.
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1:57 p.m. – IDUs MEPs are “overwhelmingly” to the Agreement, said its president Philippe Vigier, who also called for a new vote in parliament when the agreement is finalized in early September.
Philippe Vigier also requested “the creation of a parliamentary monitoring committee, with the two assemblies and all political tendencies “of the Greek situation,” so we do not lie to us “and” we know at what level the word of France is committed. “
When the financial crisis of 2008, Nicolas Sarkzoy had set up a working group of 24 representatives and senators to formulate reform proposals, he recalled. “We have no right not to let the Greek people a chance,” he pleaded, highlighting the “geo-political consequences” would have had a Grexit.
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1:37 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron is pessimistic about the fate of Greece in the short term “The agreement does not purge the topic. Debt intellectually, “said during a press briefing the Minister of Economy. “Theoretically, I do not think in the long term this debt level is possible (…) and politically realistic in the short term it is impossible to have an agreement on the subject. “
According to him, it will rebind confidence in the euro area and improve its operation to consider a long-term approach to the problem. “In addition to the agreement that was reached, it is necessary that we can redefine the ways to restart the Greek economy, that does not allow the agreement at this stage,” said Minister Economy
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12:45 -. The deputies Republicans will be free to vote their “. We were on a favorable position at the start but the statements of Alexis Tsipras (Greek Prime Minister) saying it was a bad deal this morning threw the disorder, “said the leader of the deputies Republicans Christian Jacob. The Seine-et-Marne MP noted, however, that he would vote for
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24:19 – The Greek Deputy Minister of Finance resigned from Nadia Valavani government. In a letter Wednesday to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the Syriza economist, who had remained after the resignation of Yanis Varoufakis says that “it is impossible to continue to belong to the government.” She said the austerity measures the country will engage in a deadly way. Nadia Valavani was responsible in his ministry tax issues and privatizations.
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24:06 – Members of the left Front “took the unanimous decision to vote against” the European Agreement on Greece and “not limited to an abstention”, announced Wednesday their leader, André Chassaigne. “It’s a bad deal, disastrous for the future of Greece,” said to the press the Communist MP, hours before the debate and vote in the National Assembly
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11:33 – The European Commission proposes to grant Greece a bridging loan of seven billion euros, honoring its immediate financial commitments, provided that Parliament vote before the end of the day a package of reforms in accordance with agreement reached Monday with the European creditors
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9:10 -. Environmentalists want to “continue to support the Greek people” but intend parallel “denounce” a Greece-EU Agreement “unrealistic” , which act “a defeat of political Europe,” said the national secretary of EELV, Emmanuelle Cosse. In the Assembly Wednesday “our parliamentarians will vote either yes or not to vote, but with the same political line: support Tsipras and simultaneously denounce this agreement,” she said
<. h5> Sources AFP and Reuters 
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