Creditors what he called terrorism. Meantime, greek banks remain closed today. The atms are running out of money. The ecb is holding a Conference Call today tole try and decide how long to keep a life live at the banks. Meantime Germanys Angela Merkel will meet with Frances Francois hollande today. And theres a meeting of creditors today. We were talking before the show it just is confounding to me just watching it happen. It almost looks like you get so defiant at some point, youd almost rather inflict your own demise, than have it inflicted by somebody else. And i think thats part of what happened here. Merkel saying by the way, she thinking the greek Prime Minister basically drug his people into a wall. If youre a creditor if youre a socialist and smart money like thought that would never happen. Once it happened i guess all bets are off. You cant assume that theyre going to have some sort of all attitude about in the middle east, about democracy, no longer do i think we can expect
Welcome to the countdown. Im anna edwards. Were a lot of news around greece. We get to that in just a moment. We heard the ecb yesterday that they were increasing liquidity. A lots about the me speak to the eu commissioner. That is an exclusive conversation and it takes place on this program. Used to be in charge of latvia. Then later we theres thinking that his vision for londons infrastructure later, we will be joined by a host of ceos. Those Companies Release their numbers for the most recent quarter. The president of the Swedish Telecom giant joins us in just under an hours time for his first conversation. Those numbers are just breaking now. Theyre keeping their outlook unchanged. Coming in just under estimates. Lets get back to greece. Finance ministers authorized a bridge loan to greece. That is according to the irish Prime Minister. It paves the way for a third of bailout that could keep greece in the common currency. Lets get more with Caroline Hyde and hans nichols. Yesterday
Control in the northwestern u. S. Hello, greek media are reporting that Prime Minister will call a general election for september the 20th even though he has only been in office for seven months and the Left Wing Party were elected after pledging to end austerity cuts and agreed for reforms for greece to receive bail out funding and they rebelled against the latest deal. With me now in the studio is dennis an associate professor of economics at the university and thanks so much for coming into the studio, one key important issue about all of this is clearly the bailout package and funding that greece has received. As far as you are concerned is that now in concerned, is the Bailout Program now in danger fell elections are called . It went through parliament and the German Government and is in safe hands but what is the problem is the physicianable stability in greece, will they have a stable government Going Forward and we will find out in the next couple of weeks. How important is it
We will take you live to that debate via the german broadcaster a rd. Accompanied by interpreters to bring you the debate. In english in real time. Alright lets focus now on the candidates. Chancellor Anglo American has both admirers and some bitter detractors at home and abroad but she has been in the job for twelve years. And then you got Martin Schulz on the other hand he has a career in european politics to look back on. He spent years as the president of the German European Parliament german politics. Is new terrain for him. A german cannot cast a vote to directly. Elect the chancellor but if they coul. Hear the numbers for you and they are very telling. So opinion polls indicate that mariko would get forty nine percent of the vote. While thirty seven percent a german voters say they want her conservative cdu csu block. To lead the next government. Alright were gonna take me out to Martin Schulz and see what hes dealing with tonight. The numbers for him on this debate night are no
In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with a term as chancellor weekend but also gave the far right their first seat in the parliament in more than 50 years, though the taboo against Holding Referendum in germany remains as strong as ever. To discuss all that im joined by henry chu, International Editor of variety, Polly Toynbee from the guardian, maria margaronis, who writes for the nation, and stephanie bozon from germanys der welt. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again. Lets talk first of all about this question of referendums. What do you make of the way that the government in iraq and spain have responded to the referendums proposed and held . Well, it makes you actually be more in favour of referendums then i would be normally inclined to be because i tend to think referendums put very complex questions in very simple terms which is something we saw with the brexit referendum, very vividly, where everybody was actually voting on a different topic and for D