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GREECE’S CREDITORS HAVE piled pressure on cash-strapped Athens as the IMF pulled its team out of talks and the EU warned Athens to stop gambling with the possibility of default and a messy exit from the eurozone.
The International Monetary Fund said an agreement remained far-off after a five-month stalemate with Greece’s anti-austerity government, which faces being unable to pay huge debts at the end of the month.
Eleventh-hour talks in Brussels between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker meanwhile broke up without reaching a deal on reforms in exchange for bailout cash.
“There are still major differences between us in most key areas,” IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters in Washington.
There has been no progress in narrowing these differences recently. Thus we are well away from an agreement.
The fund said its Greek talks team had returned to Washington from Brussels and that the “ball is very much in Greece’s court right now — although it added that “the IMF never leaves the table and remains engaged”.
It said the key disagreements were on pensions, taxes and financing.
EU president Donald Tusk issued an unprecedented warning to Tsipras, telling the Greek government to stop “gambling” and saying the Eurogroup meeting would be “really crucial” and “decisive”. He told a press conference:
There is no more time for gambling. The day is coming, I am afraid, that someone says the game is over.
The IMF is the most hardline of Greece’s three bailout monitors — the others being the European Commission and European Central Bank — who have demanded tough reforms in exchange for unlocking the remaining €7.2 billionof its €240 billion rescue package.
Without fresh external funding when the bailout expires on June 30, cash-strapped Greece is set to default on its debts, meaning it could crash out of the eurozone despite benefiting from two international bailouts since 2010.
Athens shares closed with an 8.16-percent leap on Thursday, shortly before the IMF announcement, on investors’ optimism for a deal.
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how many more met eirenn complaint stories are ye gonna do?!
“Commenter rumbles weather conspiracy!”
met eireann must not be voting fg in next election
Any possibility that you might do a story on how often RTE , either don’t Report The News at all , or Report it inaccurately – so as to suit it’s Editors Political Agenda – which is clearly controlled by Lab. / FG Acolytes ???
what possessed the journal to conduct an investigation into complaints against met eireann? Bizarre.
Steal our jobs? Wait, I thought they were tryin to steal our benefits?
Here we go… The bould diarmuid couldn’t even let an article about the weather go without his/her/it’s usual bile. Do yourself a favour and get out and meet some real people.
Jees Mikey, whatever I did to you in a past life, I am truly sorry
dey tuk err jeobs
Jeez man,just lighten up a bit. you are really a great poster and you make a great point but you loose it with your shinner this and shinner that and your swipes. Chill out man and allow us to actually enjoy your posts. We might not agree politically but in fairness you are a great poster.
Deeeeeer tuk rrrrrrrrrr jooooorbs!!
shut thr f $#k up
Cue the hilariously funny lines we have never heard before (!) and then the Father Ted references and youtube links ……
Wearisome.
“I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on television. We’re not all vibrant, fun-loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals, who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive.”
She’s pointing it out to the endless amounts of Non Nationals who dont have a clue
Non nationals…..that have had to find Ireland to get here. So they probably already know where it is.
Yeah, if they were navigating by map and an astrolabe.
To be fair, I think the arrow is there to indicate where Ireland is when the satellite pics show cloud cover that obscures the green bit underneath. I’m guessing that they were taken by surprise by a cloud free day and forgot to take off the arrow.
At last, a logical comment.
I’m not sure, you’d think that the lads in the satellite would already know where Ireland is.
Also, people with poor geography knowledge pay the same TV license fee as everybody else.
If this all some people have to complain about they not only have too much time on their hand but also must have a stress free life
Stress ours one of those things everyone has a certain capacity for. If someone doesn’t have much to occupy them then trivial sh!te will expand to fill that capacity.
Talk to Joe 1850 715 815 the liveline is open
The complaints probably came from thejournal staff. Anything to squeeze another article out this story :-)
Average age of complainant- 97 years old.
Its for all the Unionists partitionists here who think Ireland is still part of UK or wish it were.
The country going down.lol
Some people are always whinging and will never be satisfied, it’s plainly obvious that the arrow is indicating the direction of the wind
Look at it again – the big blue arrows are showing the wind direction. Maybe we are a nation of morons after all
Good man Charles :)
In fairness we don’t need the weather forecast it rains 360 days a year.
Get a life seriously
What I want to know is WHY they choose to point out Ireland?
the weather report on rte is usually wrong anyway, but its true that they have an annoying habit of talking down to people, treating them like their idiots.
Its Joan Blackburn herself. I can’t bear her
She talks to us
I’ve we just came out of a cave for the first time
Me father loves her so I rile him up every time she’s on.
He got Sky plus cos I always interrupted her !!
Love the Simpson reference
It says Ireland when pointing to Derry, lol.
Most RTE staff are West Brits.
They know exactly where Prince Harry or Prince Charles are at any one time but they cannot place where Ireland is on a map of the world.
If the moron who made that complaint had enough brain cells to figure out the context of the “Ireland Arrow”, they might have noticed that a few seconds earlier, the entire country and much of the UK was covered in rainfall, and was thus hidden.
If anyone from Met Éireann happens to see this, please give me a job as a complaints responder. I will soon shut these muppets up, I’ll even do it for free!
Also, perhaps the journal could bang in a FOI request to see how much they spend on bogroll in the last year, we are dying to know. You could milk the bejaysus out of that for a week too!
Time for fresh new faces,,….Helen.
where do people get the time to be offended
For me I love the word choices by the presenters:
- “risk of thunder” — exactly what is the risk? “chance of thunder”?
- “warning in operation” — how do you operate a warning?
- “maxima” or “minima” — what’s wrong with plain English – high and low?
- “values” — temperatures?
Great rant
Not this again !!
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Some people obviously have way too much time on their hands.
It may look silly you be surprise how many people in digital world now that people can rte almost anywhere that don’t know we are not part of uk and we are island of our own how many times have been abroad because you speak the English language (no disrespect to uk)they think your from uk how often in Spain do you see Irish flag on menus never
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