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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-09-24
CONTENTS
[01] Gov't spokeswoman Voultepsi on Samaras-Merkel meeting
[02] SYRIZA: Samaras returned empty-handed from Berlin
[01] Gov't spokeswoman Voultepsi on Samaras-Merkel meeting
ANA/MPA---German Chancellor Angela Merkel is "absolutely institutional
and would not take any initiative on her own," government spokeswoman
Sofia Voultepsi said on Wednesday commenting on Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras' meeting with Merkel.
"There is the troika in place, so Ms. Merkel would not commit to
anything. Neither did we ask for it," Voultepsi told private ANT1 TV,
stressing that Merkel spoke positively on Greece and for the first time
the two officials shared identical views.
"Whatever they said in private, it was also said publicly," Voultepsi
added.
[02] SYRIZA: Samaras returned empty-handed from Berlin
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras once more "fell short of expectations,"
SYRIZA spokesman Panos Skourletis told ANT1 TV commenting on Samaras'
meeting with German Chancellor Merkel.
"Sometimes, the devil is in the details and I think Merkel and Samaras
were absolutely clear on one point. Merkel said that things would progress
in such a way that would conclude the memorandum programme. Samaras,
in slightly different words, said exactly the same thing; that we will
move within the framework of the memorandum programme," he said.
"Consequently, I believe Samaras went and came back empty-handed. And
on the crucial, strategic for Europe issue, which is the need to loosen
the Stability Pact, namely the loosening of extreme austerity policies,
he was left irreparably exposed," he noted.
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