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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-05-02
CONTENTS
[01] New growth & dev't plan to be presented soon, FinMin Varoufakis
interview
[01] New growth & dev't plan to be presented soon, FinMin Varoufakis
interview
ANA-MPA - The government is looking for an agreement that "will make
the Greek public debt and the Greek social economy viable again,"
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told the "Efimerida ton Syntakton"
newspaper in an interview published Saturday, asserting that a new plan
for Greece's growth and revival will be presented shortly.
Speaking about the current economic situation, Varoufakis said that no
country should have entered such "an unstably built common currency,"
especially a country with high deficits like Greece, adding that the
path that brought Greece into the monetary union "no longer exists, and
if we try to back up we will find ourselves in unpleasant circumstances."
"If the eurozone does not change, it will not be able to survive," the
finance minister said, adding that he believed Greece could do away with
the need for a new loan if the current debt is significantly restructured,
an issue that has been raised already.
Among other things, he denied that he was criticised by his Eurogroup
colleagues, a fact he wishes that Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem
had denied sooner, and spoke highly of Euclid Tsakalotos, the alternate
foreign minister in the Greek negotiation team. German Finance Minister
Wolfgang Schaeuble is "an important political adversary" and Greece's
creditors are "disparate partners", he commented.
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