Leaders of the main Greek political parties have again postponed the meeting scheduled for 24 hours on Tuesday to accept the reforms demanded by donors in exchange for Athens a second aid plan.

A party official who declined to be identified said the postponement was due to the fact that the leaders of the three features had not yet received the text of the draft agreement on this bailout of 130 billion euros.

While demonstrators gathered in Athens burned the German flag, Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to ease tensions. "I will do nothing to force Greece out of Euro", she assured, responding to a Greek student in a meeting with young people in Berlin.

His Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte has however not ruled out such an output. "The rest of the euro area is now strong enough (…) so we can deal with an output of Greece, a Greece faces serious problems," he said ;.

A half an hour of their meeting, scheduled at 19:00 GMT, the leaders of the Socialist Party, New Democracy (right) and Laos (far right) who support the government of Lucas Papadé ; mos still had not received the draft agreement with the IMF and the European Union.

"We can not say yes or no frank without assurances from the competent authorities of the State that these measures are constitutional and that the country will emerge from the crisis," said George Karatzaferis, leader of Laos. "We have time. Since it is about the future of the state, we find the time, "he said

To avoid being insolvent in late March, Athens has been negotiating for months with the troika (International Monetary Fund, European Union and European Central Bank) the granting of the second aid tranche

. Negotiations between Lucas Papademos and donors took almost all night from Monday to Tuesday, until 04:00 (2:00 GMT), right at the start the first walkouts in ports. "No ship left the port of Piraeus this morning, due to the strike of seamen," said a spokesman for the coastguard.

The movement was launched at the call of the main unions, GSEE (private) and ADEDY (public), to denounce a policy which, they say, threatens to lead the country in a destructive spiral.

The Acropolis was closed to tourists, public transport was disrupted during rush hours, hospital staff is minimized. Teachers, employees of banks or telecommunications plan to join the movement.

Scuffles broke out between Syntagma Square police and demonstrators who tried to climb the steps leading to parliament chanting "No to the medieval working conditions, do not give head , resist ".

Participation seemed a little weaker than in previous rallies in recent months, the rain had apparently been due to the desire of some protesters.

"They (the government) were saved by the rain. The weather did not allow the protesters to take to the streets and show their anger, "he told Reuters Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of public sector union, ADEDY

. "FINDING A SOLUTION"

Lucas Papademos, Vice-old President of the European Central Bank (ECB), must now convince the leaders of three parties in the diverse coalition that supports it to accept the conditions imposed by the EU and the IMF ..

……. "We must find a solution today," said a government official before the meeting between parties …….

.. The Greek finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, has meanwhile said the talks between his government and the "troika" – Lender EU, IMF, ECB – were difficult. 

"Unfortunately, the negotiations are so difficult that when a chapter is closed, another opens," he said Monday night.

Tuesday, a source close to the talks we had yet reported progress in discussions. "Our positions are not as far apart as before," said, adding that both sides were working on the contours of the political program that Athens will apply to enter the second plan help.

After weeks of dealings, several important questions have still not been resolved.

COST OF WORK

Greece has yet to find 600 million euros in savings for the current year, a total of 3.3 billion, said a government official.

Troika also requires that the cost of labor in the private sector is reduced by about one fifth. It proposes to do this by lowering the minimum wage by 20% – which would affect the entire pay scale – by eliminating premiums paid leave or certain sectoral wage agreements.

Europe seeks new austerity is accepted by the Greek government coalition and approved by the Troika before February 15, time to settle then the procedures complex techniques involved in an agreement between Athens and its private creditors on a debt exchange.

The EU hopes to avoid a default "disorderly" of Greece, which must be repaid in March 14.5 billion euros of bonds maturing . 

The President of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, said Tuesday he had no doubt on the future of Greece in the euro area, provided that the country meets its obligations vis-à-vis other members of the single currency.

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SNPL pilots and key union hostess and stewards have launched a strike notice for four days starting Monday. They oppose a bill to impose a minimum service in the air during a strike. Of passengers at the information board on flights at Charles de Gaulle

French unions aviation, including pilots of SNPL and the main organizations of hostesses and stewards, confirmed Friday their strike call from 6 to 9 February to oppose a bill regulating the right to strike in this sector.

In addition to the pilots and flight attendants, federations FO, CFDT, UNSA and CGT have the air, after an inter-union, called the staff of companies and their service providers to mobilize. The bill "has been hardened to the Assembly and the government does not want to negotiate, the National Council of SNPL therefore confirmed the strike on Friday from 6 to 9 and decided it would be renewable, either directly after 9, or at another time, "he told AFP Yves Deshayes, national president of the SNPL, the main pilots' union, super-majority at Air France.

"At the Inter, after our board meeting, it's the same with a strike from 6 to 9, and a few different versions according to the unions," said Yves Deshayes. "The three main trade unions of PNC (flight attendants), the SNPNC, the Unac and UNSA also call from 6 to 9, "said the driver. "The strike is held from 6 to 9," also said Franck Mikula, president of the Unac (CFE-CGC) at the conclusion of the Inter.

The SNPL said that among the ground staff would go on strike and some others would be "in action via other means." "We call for the strike in all French airlines, in metropolitan and overseas territories" , said Yves Deshayes.

In his Bordeaux against social fraud, Nicolas Sarkozy seems to have mostly focused on benefit fraud individuals. But this is far from being the No. 1 threat to Social Security accounts. Parade 1st May 2004 in Paris.

Social fraud is the enemy. Nicolas Sarkozy, on the road to the family allowance fund of Bordeaux, gave a speech particularly offensive against fraud, described as "worst and most insidious betrayal of the spirit of 1945" and accused of "undermining the foundations the same Social Republic. " If he was refusing to "stigmatize anyone," the president nevertheless denounced "thieves and cheaters" in the system. The thieves are those who feel abused a social benefit. And cheaters, those who employ an employee without declaring it.

His speech, however, was unbalanced. Indeed, it has placed more emphasis on fraud of insured persons, he took care to detail ("he who has a work stoppage fraudulent," "one who underestimates its resources," "he who does not reside in the country "," one who invents a fictional housing "..) than that of health professionals or companies, referred to simple turn of a phrase. Yet the amounts diverted by them are a priori much more important. State of Play.

How much is the benefit fraud in France?

All the fraud was by nature not detected, there are only estimates. The benefit fraud general scheme has been estimated at between 2 and 3 billion euros by a recent parliamentary report.

The President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano charged Sunday the former European Commissioner Mario Monti to form a new government is responsible for putting in order the finances to reassure financial markets and European partners in Rome.

After the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, left under the jeers of thousands of Romans, the head of state has mandated that as planned economics professor aged 68 to lead a cabinet should be composed mainly of technocrats.

In a brief speech a few minutes after the announcement of his appointment by the Quirinal Palace, Mario Monti has promised to conduct "with a sense of urgency but with care" consultations to establish the composition of his government.

ONE YEAR AND A HALF FOR REDRESS OF ITALY

The uncertainty of recent weeks Italy has strongly penalized in the bond markets, and Rome hopes that the arrival of Mario Monti will reassure the financial community.

"The country must become a pillar of strength, not a weak link in the European Union that we were among the founders," said the former European Commissioner for Competition.

The objective of the new government will be "to improve the financial situation and resume the path of growth in a context of increased attention to social justice," he added, saying that Italy could "overcome difficulties by a joint effort. "

"We owe it to our children," said the economist.

The Heads of State and Government of the euro area may call Wednesday the European Central Bank (ECB) to continue its purchases of bonds to support Italy and Spain, according to a draft of their summit conclusions to which the Germany, however, said not to buy in the state.

"We fully support the ECB in its actions to ensure price stability in the euro area, including its non-standard measures in a financial market currently outstanding," states that the project, which Reuters had access.

Sources of the European Union said that these "unconventional measures" referred to by the ECB purchases of bonds of countries in difficulty on the secondary market debt, purchases it took over in August to support the Spain and Italy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted promptly by declaring opposition to any representation which purports to tell the ECB what to do.

"This sentence and the way it is currently in the news are not accepted by Germany," she told reporters.

Carsten Schneider, budget expert of the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) of Germany, for his part indicated that a draft motion on the multiplication of EFSF was based precisely on the assumption that the ECB will stop buying bonds on the secondary market.This motion must be filed Wednesday in the Bundestag.

The ECB buys Spanish and Italian paper in the hope of lowering their yields and reduce the cost and funding of these two countries on the market.

But investors fear that these two countries follow the path of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, all of which benefit from support schemes concocted by the EU and the International Monetary Fund.

"No misunderstanding"

The ECB has, to date, bought for 170 billion euros of debt in the euro area difficult, prevent a widening yield spreads with German debt, a move that has caused divisions within their bodies leaders.

Angela Merkel said Berlin was trying to have an ECB statement setting out its opinion on the draft communiqué of the summit.

"We want much clearer statements about what the ECB wants itself and we speak about it. We do not want a misunderstanding where policies would expect something special from the ECB," she said .

She also felt that too much speculation on the draft summit conclusions."The sentence does not include a statement that the purchases in the secondary market are possible and it just says that unconventional measures will continue," said she.

Many economists believe that the only way for the Seventeen to simultaneously protect themselves from market pressure, while regaining their trust is to the ECB and its unlimited liquidity at the heart of the rescue device in European countries too indebted.

France follows this line of thinking but Germany and the European Commission see this as a violation of the fundamental laws of Europe.

Given this impasse, the top of the euro area should suit Wednesday to leverage the capabilities of the EFSF through an insurance mechanism and a special vehicle, without involving the ECB in the process.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended sharply higher Monday, the EU summit Sunday with renewed hopes of resolving the crisis in the euro area and diverted the attention of the new rise in the yen and floods in Thailand.

The leaders of the European Union Sunday seemed closer to an agreement on the euro area, including the recapitalisaiton banks and the multiplication of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).

The Nikkei gained 1.9%, or 165.09 points to 8,843.98 and the Topix, broader, took 11.23 points (1.51%) to 755.44.

The Nikkei, which lost 0.8% last week, crossed the threshold for Monday its moving average of the last five sessions, thus became a threshold of support for 8735 points.

"The news from Europe maintain hope and Wall Street reacted to the rise to these expectations, so the Japanese market is now catching up gains made abroad on blankets in the open position," said Koichi Ogawa, Daiwa SB Investments.

"But Japan is facing its own problems with the strong yen and floods in Thailand, affecting some manufacturing industries.These factors will limit gains in Tokyo and push investors to take a wait, time to see how the situation in Europe. "

Friday, the dollar dropped to a record low against the yen at 75.78, but has slightly rebounded since.

Title Olympus continued its dive to fall by 10.72% to 1,099 yen, after touching a low at the meeting of thirteen and a half to 1,012 yen.

The stock has lost more than half its value since the dismissal of its chief executive on Oct. 14.The latter was accused of incompetence by the presidency of the group, denounced bad practice prior to his arrival at the head of the group.

In technology, Elpida ended up 4.01% to 493 yen, while Sony fell by 1.29% to 1,536 yen.

The tire manufacturer Bridgestone has outperformed the market by winning 4.07% to 1,764 yen after announcing its intention to increase its operating profit by 5.8% of revenue in 2010/11 to 10% in 2016/17.

Paris and Berlin have developed a second summit, in addition to Sunday, to prepare a "comprehensive and ambitious répnse" to the crisis in the eurozone. President Nicolas Sarkozy meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday, August 16 at the Elysee Palace (both here in Berlin July 20, 2011)

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel will meet again Saturday night in Brussels on the eve of the European summit to prepare an "ambitious and comprehensive response" to the crisis in the euro area whose elements will be adopted at a second summit "at the late Wednesday ", they announced Thursday in a joint statement. In this paper circulated by the Elysee Palace, Paris and Berlin have also called for "immediate negotiations" engage with the private sector "to reach an agreement to strengthen the sustainability" of the Greek debt.

The statement said the French president and German chancellor, who have been in Frankfurt on Wednesday night for an "informal meeting" Thursday had a telephone conversation during which they "expressed their full agreement to provide a comprehensive and ambitious "to the crisis in the months since the euro area.

This response will include "the operational implementation of new forms of intervention EFSF, a plan to strengthen the capital of European banks (and) the establishment of economic governance in the euro area and the strengthening of economic integration ", they repeated. The two countries "agreed that all elements of this ambitious and comprehensive response will be discussed in depth at the summit on Sunday in order to be finally adopted by the Heads of State and Government at a second meeting at the late Wednesday. "

A summit of heads of state and government of 27 EU countries is scheduled Sunday in Brussels, followed on the heels of another top 17 members of the euro area. Prior to confirmation of Paris and Berlin, a diplomatic source had raised the possibility of a second peak of the euro area, noting the differences that continue to oppose the countries of the European Group on how to strengthen the Fund European Financial Stability (EFSF). Long opposed, the two largest economies in the euro area ultimately reached a common position but "n'enthousiasme not" some of their European partners, acknowledged Wednesday the Secretary of State for Finance Steffen Kampeter.

"We have made enormous progress but not enough to make final decisions on Sunday.In some areas, we agree (between European partners), in others we are on track, "said Thursday night a spokesman for Mrs. Merkel, Steffen Seibert. Mr. Seibert also suggested that the second summit was necessitated by considerations of internal politics in Germany. "The participation of the German parliament is essential," he said.

"The challenges we know are also in negotiations related to the requirement of the German Members to be consulted," confirmed to AFP diplomatic source in Brussels. In their statement, France and Germany finally, once again, urged Greece to "make ambitious commitments to address the situation of their economies as part of a new program." At a meeting with Merkel in Berlin on October 9, M.Sarkozy had promised "sustainable solutions, comprehensive and fast" to resolve the crisis, at least before the G20 summit expected in Cannes on November 3 and 4.

France and Germany have formalized their agreement on how to resolve the debt crisis in the euro area, said Friday the French Minister of Economy Baroin after meeting with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble and Nicolas Sarkozy.

"We will over the coming days to continue our discussions but we already have on contractual agreements that will be very important," said Baroin referring to the stabilization of the euro area, the recapitalization of banks in Europe and "maximizing" the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).

Wolfgang Schäuble assured that the two countries had a "common position" and expressed confidence that they can "protect the euro area".

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel pledged in Berlin on Sunday to respond "lasting and comprehensive peace" to the crisis in the euro area for the G20 summit scheduled for early November in Cannes, which will include a recapitalization of European banks.

The French president was then assured that the compromise between the two countries on how and where the process was considered "complete", denying the reports of differences over the use of EFSF, now ratified by all Member States of the area, to provide the necessary funds.

While the capital needs of European banks were estimated between 100 and 200 billion dollars by the IMF, Angela Merkel stated that the new European Banking Authority and the International Monetary Fund would be asked to ensure that what is proposed is "durable and strong."

Nicolas Sarkozy announced the other as France and Germany were preparing a number of adjustments to the Treaties to strengthen European integration in the euro area.

The title UBS has lost 2.17% this morning at the opening after the resignation of Oswald Grübel Saturday. The former CEO left the bank following a fraud of $ 2.3 billion by a trader. The CEO of UBS Oswald Grübel could be landed in the management of the bank after losing $ 2 billion by a trader.

The action of the first Swiss bank UBS has opened lower Monday after the surprise resignation of CEO Oswald Saturday Grübel after the scandal caused by the massive fraud by a trader who cost the institution $ 2.3 billion . After falling 2.17% at the opening, title UBS limited its losses, down 0.40% to 10.08 Swiss francs in a market down by 0.35% at 7:13 GMT.Sergio Ermotti, responsible for the affairs of the bank in Europe, Asia and Africa and a former leader of the Italian bank Unicredit, will assume the position of interim CEO with immediate effect, UBS had said Saturday.

Gruebele Oswald resigned after the spectacular case of fraud which cost 2.3 billion dollars and another blow to the reputation of the first bank Helvetic. "The Board of Directors of UBS has accepted the decision of Oswald Grübel to withdraw from his duties" the bank said in a statement. Kaspar Villiger, President of UBS, said in the statement that "The Council regrets the decision of Oswald Grübel.The latter considers it his duty to take responsibility for the recent case involving unauthorized trading operations. "

"This decision reflects the strength of its principles and integrity," added the president of UBS, adding that "during his tenure, he managed to turn the company around and increased impressively in the UBS base ". M. Gruebele, 67, was taken from his retirement two years ago to address the UBS, after leading the rival bank Credit Suisse. Taking the head of UBS in the midst of the financial crisis during which the bank had lost billions of francs and posted record losses, Gruebele M. had returned to profit in 2010.

Oswald Grübel "retires from office after having helped UBS to become one of the best capitalized banks in the world" acknowledged Saturday the chairman of banking giant Helvetic.Kaspar Villiger said shortly after during a conference call that the board of directors of UBS did not want to see Oswald Grübel leave immediately and would have preferred to keep jusqu''à the shareholders' meeting in spring 2012. But Oswald Grübel, abandoning his position as Chairman of the Executive next year would not have constituted a strong enough signal, said Chairman of UBS from Singapore. UBS disclosed last week have suffered a loss of $ 2.3 billion (1.7 billion) after one of its traders had made "unauthorized trading".

A broker of 31 years, Kweku Adoboli on suspicion of fraudulent transactions, was charged and detained in London, as part of this young man will affaire.Le jailed at least until his next hearing on 20 October.The largest shareholder in UBS, the Singapore sovereign fund GIC, had reacted severely after the discovery of the fraud, calling the Swiss bank "to react firmly to restore confidence in the bank."

There are less than a week, however, Oswald Gruebele, had told the Swiss Sunday newspaper Sonntag, he did not feel guilty in the fraud case and had no intention of resigning. "I am responsible for what happens in the bank. But if you ask me whether I feel guilty when I say no", said the banker, Sergio P. Ermotti, responsible for the affairs of the bank in Europe, Asia and Africa, will assume the position of interim CEO with immediate effect, said UBS."The Board is deeply disappointed by the loss from unauthorized trading operations and will fully support the independent investigation," said UBS also in a statement.

Swiss bank UBS had started Wednesday in Singapore where one of its largest shareholders, a series of meetings of its Board of Directors, held in the utmost secrecy. Friday, Oswald Grübel, continued to assert that he had always trusted the board of the group, despite the fraud and rumors of his imminent departure, according to a Swiss newspaper. Réagisssant the shock wave caused by the announcement of fraud, UBS decided to suspend all advertising campaigns.

The Chief Inspectors of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will return to Athens in early next week to resume the inspection mission, said Tuesday the European Commission, confirming the words of the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos.

International creditors of Greece will have to decide at the end of the mission of an agreement on the release of a new tranche of eight billion euros.

Evangelos Venizelos spoke of his austerity plan with the delegates of the European Union (EU) and the IMF during a conference call that ended Tuesday at 20:30 GMT."Good progress has been made" during the conference, stressed the Commission in a statement, adding that "the technical discussions will continue in Athens in the coming days."

"Discussions will continue this weekend in Washington," which will host the annual meeting of the IMF, it was also learned in a statement released by the Greek Minister of Finance, who will attend the meeting.

An official with the Greek Ministry of Finance has also expressed confidence that the next tranche of eight billion euros will go to Greece with its international creditors, he said on condition of anonymity after a teleconference Tuesday.

"We are close to agreement with the troika," he said.

Greece pledged Tuesday to further reduce the size of its public sector in order to convince its creditors to pay the new tranche of aid, without which, the Greek state could end up insolvent next month.