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"Mr President, it is to be feared that the support package for Greece will not work. After all, no country in the world has ever managed to reduce a 14% budget deficit to 3% in three years. Greece will be no different. There is a great deal of opposition in Greece to the austerity measures, and so it is highly likely that the country will be sucked into a negative growth spiral, with sharply declining consumer spending even though an increase in that spending is actually needed to pay off the loans plus interest.
Therefore, Athens will sound the alarm again at some point, saying, ‘we are not managing to pay it off’. There is a good chance that Europe will then write off the loans, with the familiar words, ‘we have no choice; we need to prevent worse happening’. Mr President, the lesson to be learned from this crisis is: be honest and keep your word. The countries of the euro area must put their budgets in order, publish honest figures, comply with the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact and purge their debts. Countries failing to do those things must leave the euro area."@en1
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