Putin And Tsipras Are Meeting: Here Are The Main Highlights

While Germany has pre-emptively, and somewhat defensively, come out proclaiming Russian aid to Greece as ‘no big deal’ – a “routine event” –
As Bloomberg reports, the German government suggests Russia-Greece loan would be a “routine Event.”
One country borrowing from another ‘is nothing special at all,’ German Finance Ministry spokeswoman Friederike von Tiesenhausen says when asked whether Greece accepting loans from Russia would be in line with European policy. ‘That’s the international financial system.’
Declines to comment specifically on possibility of Russian loans to Greece, says that’s ‘hypothetical’ and ‘as far as I know not on the agenda’ of Tsipras visit to Moscow
We suspect the signal that it would send would not be entirely great for the EU (and Obama’s) ‘Russia is evil’ meme.
Nonetheless, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets Russian President Vladimir Putin today, topics for discussion vary from lifting sanctions (bilaterally) or bankrolling a bailout to gas discount from Gazprom. Here’s a summary… (via RT),
The new 40-year-old leader of one of the world’s most indebted countries with meet with Putin on Wednesday, just one day before the country is due to repay 463.1 million to the International Monetary Fund. The Greek Prime Minister arrives in Moscow on Tuesday.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 04/08/2015.