{"id":29132,"date":"2015-08-17T21:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=29132"},"modified":"2015-08-17T21:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T19:02:37","slug":"ladies-day-for-greece-merkel-and-lagarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/ladies-day-for-greece-merkel-and-lagarde\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies’ Day for Greece: Merkel and Lagarde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug 16 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said \u00a0that she expected the IMF to participate in a new rescue package for Greece, saying the Washington-based institution’s chief Christine Lagarde had promised to lobby for this with the IMF board.<\/p>\n

“The IMF took part in the negotiations. It suppports (the Greece deal),” Merkel told German public broadcaster ZDF. “I have no doubts that what Mrs. Lagarde said will become reality.”<\/p>\n

Merkel ruled out a so-called “haircut” on Greece’s debt but said there were other ways to provide relief by extending debt maturities and reducing interest rates.<\/p>\n

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Aug 16 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said \u00a0that she expected the IMF to participate in a new rescue package for Greece, saying the Washington-based institution’s chief Christine Lagarde had promised to lobby for this with the IMF board. “The IMF … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-banks","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t