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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in an interview on Greek public television late on Tuesday, called the bailout agreement with creditors “a bad deal, but one we are obliged to accept.”<\/h1>\nGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in an interview on Greek public television late on Tuesday, called the bailout agreement with creditors “a bad deal, but one we are obliged to accept.”<\/h1>\n“The alternative would have been a disorderly bankruptcy,” he explained. \u201cThe result of the summit meeting and the Eurogroup is the result of pressure being put on a country to accede to the wishes of the more powerful countries of Europe,\u201d he complained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am fully assuming my responsibilities, for mistakes and for oversights, and for the responsibility of signing a text that I do not believe in, but that I am obliged to implement,\u201d Tsipras said.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that the spending cuts that his government must implement are not as harsh as was originally planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got an agreement which includes harsh reforms, but it does not include the complete dead end of the ultimatum we were presented with in July,\u201d Tsipras said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur creditors are not only forced to provide us with fresh funds, but to give \u20ac82 billion ($90.3 billion), and to accept restructuring our debt,\u201d Tsipras said.<\/p>\n
Tsipras came out strongly against German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, who had elaborated a plan to take Greece out of the euro system for five years. “But he did not succeed,” he said. Europe doesn’t belong to Mr. Schauble,” Tsipras insisted.<\/p>\n
Tsipras ruled out early elections in Greece, saying he intended to serve a full four-year term. \u201cThe worst thing a captain can do while he is steering a ship during a storm, as difficult as it is, is to abandon the helm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Greek banks have been closed for nearly two weeks, since capital controls were imposed. Tsipras said banks could reopen when the bailout agreement is ratified.<\/p>\n
The Greek parliament must vote to ratify key measures of economic reform in the bailout agreement on Wednesday. The bailout provides \u20ac82 billion ($90.3 billion) in funds over three years, but imposes spending cuts, tax increases, pension reform, and labor market reform, as well as the creation of a \u20ac50 billion ($55 billion) fund from the privatization of Greek state assets ( Magda Panoutsopoulou \/ Anadolu Agency)<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in an interview on Greek public television late on Tuesday, called the bailout agreement with creditors “a bad deal, but one we are obliged to accept.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,17,14],"tags":[76113,7602,858,7232,76433],"class_list":["post-57333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-world","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-german-finance-minister","tag-greece","tag-greek-prime-minister","tag-greek-prime-minister-alexis-tsipras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}