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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-01-05
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[01] SYRIZA victory does not mean euro exit for Greece, party says
[01] SYRIZA victory does not mean euro exit for Greece, party says
ANA-MPA -- In an "unofficial" announcement issued on Monday, main
opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) demanded that Prime Minister
Antonis Samaras immediate stop a campaign "to terrorise the Greek people
and discredit the country abroad," while challenging him to reveal his
plans to establish a memorandum regime in Greece, as these were laid
out in the "notorious" e-mail sent by Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis.
The party cited a series of statements by foreign officials saying
that a Greek exit from the euro area was not an option and stressed
that SYRIZA was not blackmailing Europe with "terrorist scenarios". The
failed austerity policies were collapsing and SYRIZA's victory in the
Greek elections was recognised throughout Europe as a big opportunity
to rethink this policy, the announcement said.
"Only Mr. Samaras dares to link SYRIZA's upcoming victory with Greece's
exit from the Eurozone," the party added, while noting that a 'Der
Spiegel' report referring to such a possibility had triggered a storm
of reactions within Germany and in other countries and a 'civil war'
within the German coalition government. On Monday, both the German
government and the European Commission officially denied any change of
position concerning Greece and the Euro zone, it added.
The announcement went on to quote a series of statements by European
and German officials and analysts that discounted or warned against
a 'grexit', including one by European Commission spokeswoman Annika
Breidthardt that Greece's membership of the euro was "irrevocable" on
the basis of European treaties and the spokesman for German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Steffen Seibert, saying that the goal was to stabilise
the Eurozone with all its members, including Greece, and that there was
no change in this position.
It also referred to a recent statement by European Central Bank (ECB)
President Mario Draghi that there was no "plan B" that included a
member-state's exit from the euro.
"It is a shame for an outgoing prime minister to identify with the most
anti-European and racist toward the countries of the European South
political forces, since only the far-right German party AfD appeared
satisfied by the 'Spiegel' article," the note concluded.
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