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Yanis Varoufakis
With the debt clock ticking, Greece is fast running out of money. The country has ordered all state bodies to place their cash reserves in the nation's central bank, the Bank of Greece, as it struggles to stay afloat. Greece is supposed to receive the last installment of its bailout funds from European creditors, but the country's new leftist, anti-austerity Syriza party has expressed concerns about its terms. The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers. On Friday, eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency funds to Greece. Without the funds, Greece may default on its debt payments in coming weeks and put its membership in the eurozone at risk. We go to Athens to speak with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The official version, until we got elected, was that Greece was on the mend, that austerity was working. Our proposition to the Greek people--on which basis we were elected, were given a mandate--was the opposite, that the medicine wasn't working. It wasn't just that it was bitter and we didn't want to take it; it was that it was toxic and it was making a bad thing worse. It was worse than the disease. So, this is what's at stake here. You asked me, "How high are the stakes?" It's a question of establishing what needs to be done in order to return Greece to a sustainable path. -- Yanis Varoufakis
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With the debt clock ticking, Greece is fast running out of money. The country has ordered all state bodies to place their cash reserves in the nation's central bank, the Bank of Greece, as it struggles to stay afloat. Greece is supposed to receive the last installment of its bailout funds from European creditors, but the country's new leftist, anti-austerity Syriza party has expressed concerns about its terms. The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers. On Friday, eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency funds to Greece. Without the funds, Greece may default on its debt payments in coming weeks and put its membership in the eurozone at risk. We go to Athens to speak with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The official version, until we got elected, was that Greece was on the mend, that austerity was working. Our proposition to the Greek people--on which basis we were elected, were given a mandate--was the opposite, that the medicine wasn't working. It wasn't just that it was bitter and we didn't want to take it; it was that it was toxic and it was making a bad thing worse. It was worse than the disease. So, this is what's at stake here. You asked me, "How high are the stakes?" It's a question of establishing what needs to be done in order to return Greece to a sustainable path. -- Yanis Varoufakis
With the debt clock ticking, Greece is fast running out of money. The country has ordered all state bodies to place their cash reserves in the nation's central bank, the Bank of Greece, as it struggles to stay afloat. Greece is supposed to receive the last installment of its bailout funds from European creditors, but the country's new leftist, anti-austerity Syriza party has expressed concerns about its terms. The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers. On Friday, eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency funds to Greece. Without the funds, Greece may default on its debt payments in coming weeks and put its membership in the eurozone at risk. We go to Athens to speak with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The official version, until we got elected, was that Greece was on the mend, that austerity was working. Our proposition to the Greek people--on which basis we were elected, were given a mandate--was the opposite, that the medicine wasn't working. It wasn't just that it was bitter and we didn't want to take it; it was that it was toxic and it was making a bad thing worse. It was worse than the disease. So, this is what's at stake here. You asked me, "How high are the stakes?" It's a question of establishing what needs to be done in order to return Greece to a sustainable path. -- Yanis Varoufakis