“The government will not sign any agreement,” Greek Alternate Minister for International Economic Relations Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday said in an interview with “Agora” newspaper. Asked on the Greek government priorities (salaries and pensions or loan obligations), he said that everyone is aware of the government priorities, especially as regards salaries and pensions. “Rift is not a fetish. We are working for a good solution, but everyone knows that our limits are very specific,” Tsakalotos said.
He underlined that the agreement must break the vicious circle of ‘extend and pretend.’ “We did not say, as we have been accused of, that we do not need help. We just said that there is no point in continuing this policy that leads nowhere,” he stressed.
The Alternate Foreign Minister also said that the agreement reached must put an end to speculations about Grexit.
The agreement, he added, must allow the implementation of another policy, which will give the possibility to large parts of the population to return to the labour market within a macroeconomic framework of lower primary surpluses and an investment program.
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