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SNS Against Providing Loan to Greece, Calls for Debate in Parliament
Tuesday 04 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 4 (TASR) - The Slovak National Party (SNS) is against Slovakia providing any kind of financial assistance to Greece, said SNS representatives at a press conference on Tuesday, demanding that Parliament should debate the issue before providing any money.
According to SNS, the debt crisis isn't only a crisis of the Greece economy, but demonstrates the failure of the whole euro-bureaucracy. SNS vice-chair Anna Belousovova called on Prime Minister Robert Fico not to vote for a loan to Greece when taking part in this week's eurozone summit in Brussels.
According to Education Minister Jan Mikolaj (SNS), pumping money into Greece won't help, and restructuring its debt and a managed bankruptcy is the only solution. "The agreed measure isn't the optimal solution for Greece, but for the foreign banks from which it borrowed," said Mikolaj, concerning the €110-million loan from the International Monetary Fund and eurozone-member states.
Mikolaj claims that the measures aimed at helping Greece were designed in a way that may deal with the effects, but can't remove the causes of the problem. "This isn't only about Greece, this is a crisis of the whole European Monetary Union and the operation of the EU as such. We think that EU bodies failed before the (Greek) crisis itself emerged," said Belousovova.
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