Source: www.theguardian.com - Monday, March 23, 2015
Rolling business and financial news, as Greece’s prime minister visits Germany for talks with the German chancellor this afternoon Introduction: Merkel hosts Tsipras for first time Tsipras: Debt repayments “impossible” without help 10.39am GMT Greece’s Ta Nea newspaper says Athens has reached out to Iran to see if it might help by buying some short-term Greek debt to tide it through the crisis. Acc to Ta Nea newspaper, #Greece ForMinistry representatives went to Tehran (wtf) in order 4 the latter to consider buying part of Gr debt #Greece | @papachristosgio report in @ta_nea re Greek MFA envoy (Tsipras' cousin) to Iran in search of Tbill investors pic.twitter.com/ZkZKWVFE4Q 10.21am GMT The structure of today’s meeting is quite interesting. Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras are scheduled to meet around 5pm local time (4pm GMT) and talk for two hours, followed by a press conference to brief the media. 10.10am GMT Both sides at today’s meeting see each other as the bad guy, tweets BBC Europe editor Katya Adler : #Tsipras may see himself as plucky David coming to visit Goliath here in #Berlin but #German media paint him as outlaw to #Merkel 's sheriff 9.58am GMT Greece’s looming cash crunch ( see earlier post ) means it’s vital that Alexis Tsipras establishes trust with Angela Merkel tonight. Christian Schulz , senior economist at Berenberg Bank, argues that it could be his last chance to build bridges with the chancellor: The news ou
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