GREECE WILL DO everything it can in its power to stay in the European Union according to finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV Varoufakis stressed that far from shirking their commitments, all that the Greek people want is to be treated with dignity.
“We have never said anything about leaving the Eurozone,” he said.
Our pledge to the Greek people is that we will do everything necessary to stay in it. The ECB is our central bank and we need a relationship with it.
We’ve been involved with the IMF since Bretton Woods in 1944, we’ve borrowed money from them and that’s a relationship that must continue also.
We’re an EU member, a member of the Commission and that’s going to continue and our relationship is going to improve.
Our issue has never been the EU or the EC, it’s been the Troika. All they have done is make a bad thing worse.
Greece’s relationship with EU powerhouses Germany has been somewhat fraught since Syriza came to power on 25 January.
In recent times the German media, in particular tabloid Bild, has taken a firmly belligerent stance towards the lending of more money to Greece while they continue to resist austerity.
“We want to source a relationship with our creditors not just that we have to tolerate, but one that we actively seek,” said Varoufakis.
We extended the loan agreement because we want to change the conditions under which the loans were given. They don’t allow us to grow sufficiently to repay our debts.
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