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Greece Must Back Cuts or Risk Euro: Venizelos By Jonathan Stearns - Feb 10, 2012 10:13 AM GMT+0900
ユーロ圏財相会議後のVenizelosギリシャ財相のメッセージ ブルームバーグ 10日
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos pressed domestic political leaders to yield to conditions for a bailout,
saying a refusal would open the way for the country’s exit from the euro. Venizelos said his euro-area counterparts
refused to approve a second aid package for Greece yesterday at an emergency meeting because the government fell short
of austerity demands and because of a lack of assurances by Greek party leaders that they will stick to their
commitments after elections due as soon as April. Another extraordinary assembly of the ministers was set for Feb. 15.
ユーロ圏財相会議に出席したギリシャのEvangelos Venizelos財相は自国の政治家に対して救済策の条件を認めるように求めた。
それを拒否することはギリシャのユーロからの離脱につながるとした。財相に依れば、会議は第二次救済パッケージを承認せず、
それはギリシャ政府の財政緊縮政策は不十分であるため、またギリシャの政治からが4月の選挙に鑑みて財政緊縮策への保証に欠
ける為である。2月15日の緊急財相会議で再度検討を行う。
“From today until the next meeting of the eurogroup, our country, our homeland, our society has to think and make a
definitive, strategic decision,” Venizelos, 55, told reporters after the Brussels talks. “If we see the salvation and
future of the country in the euro area, in Europe, we have to do whatever we have to do to get the program approved.”
「次回の財相会議までに、ユーロ圏と我が国、我々の社会は熟慮して断固たる結論を出さなくてはならない」「我々がユーロ圏
に留まるために、我々は救済策の承認に必要な事をやらなくてはならない」
The standoff puts the spotlight on the leaders of the three Greek political parties backing the caretaker government of
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, a former European Central Bank vice president. Haggling over austerity measures between
Papademos and the “troika” of the European Commission, ECB and International Monetary Fund stalled for days over
pension cuts until the premier announced a “general political agreement” hours before yesterday’s Brussels meeting.
Papandreou’s Referendum
It’s not the first time the financial crisis that erupted in 2009 raised the possibility of a fracture of the currency
zone. The 17-nation euro area’s rules neither permit nor foresee an exit by a member. Then-Premier George Papandreou
dropped a call for a referendum on austerity last November when European leaders said it could lead to Greece quitting
the euro.