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Greece’s proposals to end the crisis: my intervention at the Eurogroup

We are never going to ask you to subsidise our state, our wages, our pensions, our public expenditure. The Greek state lives within its means.

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Yanis Varoufakis at Syriza parliamentary group, June 16, 2015.
Yanis Varoufakis at Syriza parliamentary group, June 16, 2015.

Yanis Varoufakis at Syriza parliamentary group, June 16, 2015. Demotix/Panayiotis Tzamaros. All rights reserved.The only antidote to propaganda and malicious ‘leaks’ is transparency. After so much disinformation on my presentation at the Eurogroup of the Greek government’s position, the only response is to post the precise words uttered within. Read them and judge for yourselves whether the Greek government’s proposals constitute a basis for agreement. 

Colleagues,

Five months ago, in my very first Eurogroup intervention, I put it to you that the new Greek government faced a dual task: