Openly defying the EU, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said yesterday in his first major speech to parliament in Athens that respect “fully” the anti-austerity program of the party that won the elections, SYRIZA, and presented its plans to dismantle the “cruel” austerity program imposed by the agreement signed by the previous government and the Troika (ECB, IMF and the European Commission).
Tsipras said Greece is not opposed to paying off your debt, but you want to reach an agreement “with its partners in the interest of all”, so said his government will submit by June a transition program to reformulate payment Greek debt, which was considered a “non-economic, but political” problem.
He said that his country “is not meant an extension of the deadline agreed with the Troika, but a bridge program to ensure funds until June to allow time to honor his great debt of 2 40 billion euros.” “The rescue failed. The new government does not have justification for requesting an extension (…), because you can not request an extension from mistakes, “he said.
The premier said the priority of his government is “facing large wounds rescue and humanitarian crisis, as promised before the election”.
In that way, in his speech, the Greek premier announced that his administration is ready to fight corruption and to perform a deep fiscal reform, to ensure a more just and able to pay tax evaders system. He said that still stands in order to raise the minimum wage gradually to 500-751 euro per month.
To reorganize public spending, Tsipras proposed, among other things, selling 800 official cars, one of the three aircraft owned, cut 30% of staff in the Megaro Maximou, the seat of government palace, and 40% of police officers wh o control this building.
In this context, Tobias Piiler expert economy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said a THE UNIVERSAL to “reduce Greece’s debt would reward those who have not fulfilled their obligations”, while considered that Tsipras “I can not think who was elected to blackmail other EU countries asking for more aid to pay their electoral promises. This is not possible “.
He also considered that a Greek exit from the euro, which sees difficult but not disposable, would mean “the collapse of Greek banks and their government, because Greece does not have a great industrial production, except tourism, to seize the eventual devaluation of its currency. ”
For its part, the spokesman for President of the Eurogroup, Jereon Dijsselbloem, announced Wednesday a special meeting on Greece will be held, but that the deadlin e for reaching an agreement remains the February 28.
With information from agencies
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