Tsipras adresses Europarliament: “Greece has made it; Three years later, it is a different country”

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“Greece has made it. Three years later, it is part of the solution and not the problem. This is a success of the Greek people,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday addressing the Europarliament plenary.

“The policy of deficits, the wasting of public money, and the widespread corruption of previous governments had thrown the country onto the ‘rocks’ of bankruptcy. But at the same time the institutions’ inability to prioritise the necessary structural reforms in the first two programmes, coupled with the insistence of some among them upon a recipe of extreme fiscal adjustment, led the country to the brink of a social explosion and economic suffocation,” Tsipras said.

Ομιλία στην Ολομέλεια του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου @Europarl_EN για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης. #FutureofEurope #EU https://t.co/Cq1teQlv75

— Prime Minister GR (@PrimeministerGR) 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018

Source: AMNA