His worries that the negotiation with the Troika is hindered by the sterile internal political situation, expressed Greek government Vice President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, characterizing the process of transition to a new era as “complicated and difficult.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Venizelos underlined that “in relation to the big issue of interest for the country, which is the exit from the crisis, the memorandum, the Troika surveillance and the transition to a new era, it is obvious that there are difficulties. The negotiation is complex and hard. That is because this is a negotiation that ends the current program and opens a new context, a new institutional regime of a completely different quality, which ensures the substantive equality of Greece in the Eurozone and the European Union.”
In a direct attack against main opposition party SYRIZA, Venizelos said that in a situation in which “the future of Greece is at stake, all Greeks need to understand that without a domestic front of consensus, without an understanding and a commitment, we cannot achieve these national goals.”
Furthermore, Venizelos highlighted that it is impossible for political forces that aim to have a significant role in the country not to realize that they must contribute to the good of the Greek economy. “On the other side, however, we have nagging, misery, lack of consensus, small partisan ulterior motives. These are things we have to overcome,” the Venizelos concluded.
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