Venizelos Promises Greeks More Gradual Adjustment, No New Taxes
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Evangelos Venizelos, Greece’s former finance minister, said the socialist Pasok party he now leads aims to make Greece an equal partner in the European Union and end the country’s reliance on international financial aid by the end of 2015.
“Our aim is to shape a clear and stable framework that will gradually reduce Greece’s dependence on financial aid,” Venizelos said in a speech in Athens today, shown live on state-run NET TV. “Our aim is for Greece to be a fiscally self-sustaining and equal member of Europe” and “to gradually exit the loan agreement, with dependency ending in three years.”