September 4, 2011
Greece’s finance minister has staunchly defended his handling of the country’s relations with international lenders, accusing his critics of promoting “a mood of uncertainty and scaremongering.”
Evangelos Venizelos said on Sunday that Greece was accelerating the implementation of long-delayed structural reforms agreed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, although he gave no details of how that would be achieved.
“We’re doing this not because it’s imposed from abroad but because it has to happen now, as quickly as possible, for the sake of our children,” Mr Venizelos said.
He insisted that relations with the troika – experts from the EU, IMF and European Central Bank – were on an even keel, although its latest monitoring mission to Athens was unexpectedly suspended on Friday for 10 days.
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