Greece's
finance minister insisted Thursday that he will reject any deal with
international bailout creditors that does not help the country exit its economic
crisis.
Yanis
Varoufakis said Greece must escape the "strictness trap" of budget
measures that might hurt the economy and so prevent the country from reducing
its debt mountain to manageable levels.
After
emerging briefly last year from a six-year economic depression, Greece is
officially back in recession, adding urgency to the need for a swift deal in
the bailout talks.
But
Varoufakis told an economic conference in Athens that he would not sign an
agreement unless it helps ease the country out of its crisis.
"Because
if I do sign, I will be yet another finance minister who signs a midterm fiscal
adjustment program that he knows will not work," he said. "And it can
be proved mathematically that it doesn't work."
Varoufakis
insisted that the country needs a debt "redesigning" that will
substantially extend repayment deadlines, with possible solutions including
bond swaps.
He claimed
that, once a satisfactory agreement with creditors is reached, Greece will
enjoy "a torrent of investment capital" from investors outside the
European Union.
Varoufakis
described a Greek exit from the euro and return to the old national currency as
"going back to the Neolithic Age."
"I
wish that we had the drachma - make no mistake, this is not to say that I want
the drachma," he said. "I wish we had not entered this monetary union
... But once you're in you don't get out, without catastrophe."
(Πηγή: abcnews.go.com)
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