FRANKFURT (MNI) – European Central Bank Governing Council member
George Provopoulos said it would be “suicide” if the Greek parliament
fails to pass sweeping austerity measures on Wednesday, the Financial
Times reported.
“For parliament to vote against this package would be a crime – the
country would be voting for its suicide,” the Bank of Greece governor
told the business daily.
Provopoulos was concerned that politicians in Greece, over the past
year and a half, had downplayed the current economic crisis and had not
examined what went wrong.
“In Portugal, the new government has come in and said that there
will be a difficult two years ahead,” the central banker said. “We have
not had that kind of talk here.”
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