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The threat of "Grexit" is approaching, the euro area is holding its breath

LE MONDE ECONOMIE | 12.06.2015 at 11:34 • Updated 12.06.2015 at 11:37 |By Cecile Ducourtieux (Brussels, European office), Adéa Guillot (Athens, correspondence) and Frédéric Lemaître (Berlin correspondent)

Alexis Tsipras, le premier ministre grec, le 11 juin à Bruxelles.

There are only two weeks in Greece and its creditors (IMF, Central Bank and European Commission) to find an agreement that will avoid the default of Athens. And the protagonists of these high-risk negotiations - is keeping Greece in the euro zone that is at stake here - seemed, Thursday, June 11, still have a little further away from a compromise.

The IMF, in fact, announced that its negotiators angered Athens does not validate the proposed agreement with its lenders on the table for the past ten days had taken a plane to Washington. And they were not ready to yield on pension reforms and VAT, which refuses Athens. "We are still far from agreement, said the IMF spokesman Gerry Rice, the ball is now in the Greek camp. "

For some, Brussels or Berlin, the strategy of the Prime Minister of the radical left, Alexis Tsipras, who seems to want to push his advantage as far as possible, panics. They fear that prejudice the ability of the eurozone to find a political solution last minute, it leads straight to his country "Grexident", a default by the Greek state goes wrong ...

"We have more time to play," Donald Tusk said Thursday.

"We have more time to play," For his part, Donald Tusk said Thursday, the president of the European Council, which had met Mr. Tsipras yesterday. "It's time, I'm afraid, someone ...

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