Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-03-05

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Tsipras: We will lead Greece out of the crisis

[02] The more the government delays, the harsher the agreement will be, ND's Georgiadis tells ANA

[03] Stefanidi wins gold at the European Indoor Championship

[01] Tsipras: We will lead Greece out of the crisis

"There is no other choice. Either this government will succeed or the aid programmes will totally fail," he explained and added: "The compromise we have agreed on is fair in principle and socially viable."

Tsipras underlined that "we will succeed even some creditors and vested interests wish for the opposite."

The Prime Minister reassured that there are no additional measures, but a package of positive and negative measures with no fiscal impact and reiterated his commitment "not one euro more of austerity."

Asked on the leader of the main opposition New Democracy, he said that Kyriakos Mitsotakis bet once again on the failure of the negotiation regardless of the fact that this woul entail the failure of the country.

[02] The more the government delays, the harsher the agreement will be, ND's Georgiadis tells ANA

He also said that if ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was prime minister, the programme review will have been concluded earlier and with less measures.

Asked if the programme review can be concluded by March 20 deadline, he said he was particularly cautious. However, he said that nobody in New Democracy claimed that the review will not be concluded.

However, he stressed that the more the government delays, the harsher the agreement will be.

Moreover, he cleared out that New Democracy has not linked the elections with the programme review and explained that the reason why they are asking for elections is because they consider that the prime minister cannot take the country out of the impasse.

Finally, he reiterated that the main opposition will not vote for additional measures.

[03] Stefanidi wins gold at the European Indoor Championship

Stefanidi won the gold medal with a 4.85m clearance.

This is the third major title in less than eight months for the Greek athlete.

In the same event the triple-jump champion Voula Papachristou won the bronze.

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