The institutions’ insistence on further pension cuts is a political expediency, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in statements to “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper.
The Greek PMĀ underlined that creditors should not regard “our sincere desire for a solution and steps we have taken to bridge the differences as a weakness.”
“The institutions’ insistence on new pension cuts after five years of Memoranda looting is nothing more than political expediency. The Greek government heads to the negotiation with a plan and well-documented counter-proposals. We will be patiently waiting until the institutions join realism,” Tsipras underlined.
“We are carrying the dignity of a people and the hope of the peoples of Europe on our shoulders. The responsibility is too heavy to ignore. It is not a matter of ideological obsession. It is a matter of democracy,” he added.
“We have no right to bury European democracy at its birthplace,” Tsipras stressed.
(source: ana-mpa)
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