Greece’s new anti-bailout government confirmed it will hold meetings with lead lender — and critic — Germany this week after markets and European governments reacted with relief to alternatives proposed in Athens to a hard debt write-off.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he will travel to Germany on Wednesday to meet European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in Frankfurt and German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin the following day.
Greece’s left-wing Syriza party won general elections eight days ago on a pledge to ax more than half its debt to eurozone lenders.
–
“We still find it difficult,” he said, “to believe that the path toward an accommodation between Greece and the rest of the region will be at all smooth.”
___
Colleen Barry reported from Rome. Nicholas Paphitis in Athens, Lorne Cook in Brussels, David Rising in Berlin, David McHugh in Frankfurt contributed to this report.
