February 12, 2011
Greece on Saturday blasted calls by EU and IMF officials for a massive privatisation drive worth 50 billion euros by 2015 to alleviate the country's crushing debts.
"The behaviour of the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank representatives ... was unacceptable," government spokesman George Petalotis said in an early morning statement.
"We asked them to help and are fully meeting our obligations. But we did not ask anybody to meddle in the internal matters of the country," he said.
Greek newspapers and opposition parties were equally scathing but many also took a swipe at the ruling Socialists for bargaining with the EU, the IMF and the ECB, the 'troika' supervising Greece's recovery from near bankruptcy.
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