{"id":48290,"date":"2015-02-08T22:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_washington_urges_eurozone_leaders_to_compromise_with_athens\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T22:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:05:54","slug":"ft_washington_urges_eurozone_leaders_to_compromise_with_athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48290","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Washington urges eurozone leaders to compromise with Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is pushing eurozone leaders to compromise more with Athens as fears grow that a protracted stand-off could damage the global economy, say senior EU and US officials.<\/p>\n<p>The US lobbying comes amid mounting concern in Brussels and Washington about the hardline stand taken by some eurozone governments, particularly Germany, that Greece must press on with budget-cutting commitments made under its existing \u00e2\u201a\u00ac172bn bailout regardless of last month\u2019s election, which brought anti-austerity party Syriza to power .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a conversation we\u2019re having with people,\u201d\u009d said a senior US official involved in the talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t a special initiative. I don\u2019t think our attitude has changed but what\u2019s changed is that suddenly the situation in Greece is looking more problematic.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/ef32b0d2-af8d-11e4-b42e-00144feab7de.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is pushing eurozone leaders to compromise more with Athens as fears grow that a protracted stand-off could damage the global economy, say senior EU and US officials. The US lobbying comes amid mounting concern in Brussels and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48290\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,582,589,595,592,149,168,591,200,590,144,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}