Asked how confident he was that a deal could be reached, Tsakalotos said: “I think that question is mostly for European partners now.” He said it was up to Europe to show it is willing to “learn from its mistakes” and whether it was willing to accept

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By News on the Net The Guardian——Bio and Archives--June 17, 2015

More from Tsakalotos (courtesy Reuters):

[He] suggested Athens be offered debt relief in the form of having the European bailout fund - known as the European Stability Mechanism - take over Greek bonds held by the ECB - as one option that would not increase debt for Greece or its partners. “There are lots of technical solutions on how that could be done,” he said. “If there is goodwill, I can think of 10-15 solutions right now of how that could be done. If there’s no political goodwill then for any solution I can think of a drawback.”

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