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Venizelos said yesterday’s euro-area gathering left no more room for political games in Greece over budget policy. The
Papademos administration is backed by Socialist Pasok party led by Papandreou, New Democracy under Antonis Samaras and
Laos headed by George Karatzaferis.
Venizelos財相によれば、ユーロ圏財相会議はギリシャには財政政策についての政治ゲームを行う余地を残していないという。
“There were many objections from many countries based on the fact that we didn’t fully complete in cooperation with the
troika the catalogue of additional fiscal measures that must be taken,” said Venizelos, a Pasok leader. “But the main
thing is that the eurogroup took serious note of the fact that there haven’t yet been written, explicit and unequivocal
pledges from the leaders of all the parties of support for this program.”
「多くの国からギリシャへの批判があり、必要な緊縮政策に完全な協力を約していないとするものがあった。しかしもっとも大
きな問題は、ギリシャの政党全てからの確約の無いことである」
Debt Swap
Greece, which faces a 14.5 billion-euro bond payment ($19.3 billion) on March 20, has since July been seeking a new aid
package to follow an initial rescue of 110 billion euros in emergency loans approved in May 2010. The new program
foresees a loss of more than 70 percent for bondholders in a voluntary debt exchange and extra public aid of 130 billion
euros.
The Greek parliament is due to vote on the accord this weekend.
“If our homeland, our people favor another policy that necessarily leads outside the euro area and thus outside European
integration, we have to say that directly to ourselves and to our fellow citizens,” Venizelos said. “Nobody can hide
behind another.”