PASOK leader rules out 'Grexit' in statements to Alpha TV
Opposition PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos on Sunday ruled out the possibility that Greece may exit the euro but warned that it could find itself a "bankrupted pariah" within the monetary union.
"I do not see a possible exit from the euro. I believe that is in nobody's interest," he said on an Alpha television morning news programme. According to Venizelos, however, the problem was that a country could become a "bankrupted pariah, a black hole in the euro, unable to do anything."
"We will be a country in which nobody can make investments," he added, suggesting that even Greeks feared to place their small investments in the country and stressing that the main issue was whether Greece can carry out reforms to become competitive and attract investments.
Regarding the issue of migrants, Venizelos called this a tragedy of Greek society and squarely blamed the rising tide of migrants on the "change in rhetoric" by the new Greek government. According to Venizelos, nothing had changed in Syria or Libya in recent weeks to justify the higher numbers and those arriving were encouraged by "the clashes between the ministers responsible, Amygdaleza, the wrong message that if you come to Greece, you can easily leave and go to Germany, Sweden..."
Instead of re-examining the Dublin II treaty that was unfair to southern Europe, Greece's EU partners would kick the country out of the Schengen treaty because "we say ourselves we will not respect it," he said.
Δημοφιλείς Ειδήσεις
