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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-08-29
CONTENTS
[01] ND again calls for 'different policy mix'
[02] Greece downs Puerto Rico in world basketball championship
[01] ND again calls for 'different policy mix'
(ANA-MPA) -- Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis
Samaras, in an article published in an Athens weekly on Sunday, again
aired and detailed his criticism of the government and the memorandum
agreed to between the state and the EU-ECB-IMF "troika".
Samaras referred to a worsening of a series of economic indicators and
concluded that "the memorandum is not a restructuring of public
finances. It is killing the Greek economy and dissolving Greek
society."
He reiterated a proposal for a "different policy mixture," with
measures that combat the deficit and recession simultaneously; which
will erase the deficit in two years and slash the state debt to 100
percent of GDP by 2013 -- compared to 150 percent that he predicted on
the basis of the memorandum policy.
"With our plan we shall do away with restrictions of the memorandum, so
that we can follow a policy of growth; not dolling out grants with
borrowed money, but with a decrease in tax rates and a drastic
abolition of distortions; a strengthening the competitiveness of the
Greek economy," Samaras stressed.
Lastly, he aired a personal criticism of the prime minister, saying
that his policy is leading the country into the "vicious circle of
recession", while ND's political proposal is an exit from the crisis
with recovery and growth.
[02] Greece downs Puerto Rico in world basketball championship
ANKARA (ANA-MPA) - Greece beat Puerto Rico 83-80 here on Sunday,
posting its second straight victory in Group C of the World Basketball
Championship. The 10-minute intervals were: 23-21, 41-35, 56-59,
80-83.
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