From the Guardian: There was mounting disquiet at the weekend that [finance minister Yanis Varoufakis] Varoufakis had gone too far by saying the new government was willing to implement 70% of the hated memorandum outlining Greece’s bailout accords. Firing a warning shot over the government’s bows, the energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who represents Syriza’s radical wing, said there could be no solution if foreign lenders insisted on Athens adopting the “sinful memorandum”.
“If our so-called partners insist, in any way, on extending the existing programme, that is to say the sinful memorandum because that is what they mean by the programme, there can be no agreement,” he told the state news agency ANA-MPA on Sunday. “Then the so-called partners – and let’s say it as it is, Germany – will have made a conscious choice of [going for] a rift,” added the former communist who heads Syriza’s left platform. It was imperative, Lafazanis warned, that the “radical orientation of the government programme”, backed by voters when the anti-austerity Syriza was catapulted into office, was upheld. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/15/syriza-eurozone-brussels-alexis-tsipras-greece-anti-austerity _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
