The socialist deputy John Galamba on Sunday criticized the Finance Minister posture during negotiations with Greece, considering that the Portuguese Government was more interested in defending their austerity policies than the national interest, after the German newspaper Die Welt have reported that Maria Luís Albuquerque asked the German counterpart, Wolfgang Schäuble, to be firm in negotiations with Athens.
The finance minister said on Saturday night, told TVI not suggested changes to the Eurogroup agreement with Greece, and put only issues related procedures, after Greece had emerged rumors that Portugal and Spain hampered the agreement .
“I suggested changing a single comma,” the minister said in an interview with Journal of 8 TVI. The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, had declined to comment the situation as “good manners”. “Ministers of the Portuguese and Spanish Finance are my colleagues, and I realize I have their own political priorities. They were motivated by these political priorities and I respect that,” he said.
“I do not know why Finance Minister reportedly said that, “insisted Maria Luís Albuquerque, claiming to have placed only procedures issues.
But, according to the Die Welt , citing informed sources, Maria Luís Albuquerque will “request personally” Schäuble to “remain tough” in negotiations with Greece which, on Friday, eventually bringing about an agreement for the extension of the agreement for four months.
” The Portuguese Government, instead of defending the national interest and the interest of Europe, was more concerned to defend their own interests and his own speech the last three years. Who lost with it was the Portuguese people, “he told reporters Deputy PS John Galamba Sunday, reacting to the minister and the words of the German newspaper news.
“The Portuguese Government was during this whole process of negotiations with Greece more concerned with imposing austerity to the Greeks than to realize that a positive negotiation for the Greeks would also be positive for Portugal and for Europe “, also said the socialist.
The statements of Maria Luis Alburquerque were an attempt to” delete this, “he said. “But the minister of justifications are unfounded, because there are already too many descriptions of what happened at the Eurogroup meeting and too many descriptions of what was the Portuguese Government’s behavior in recent weeks to Maria Luís Albuquerque, give interviews you give, make the statements that do, can erase that image. “
The Finance Minister had stressed on Saturday that” the Portuguese Government has always been on the side of the 18 member states of the Eurogroup “that the proposed agreement. Surprised the critical bonding to Germany, and proved “happy” to have been 19 to sign the document, which also had the agreement of Greece.
“My speech was in sense of being followed the usual procedure “, namely that the troika report to the Eurogroup evaluating the measures in Greece, said the Portuguese Minister TVI. “The question I have to do with the procedure followed in order to be the usual procedure which is the troika , after evaluating the measures, refer to the elements of the Eurogroup, explaining what was your assessment” he added.
“We can also say that we are glued to the Cyprus or Estonia positions,” he said, noting also that it is not considered “student, but someone” from Schäuble, his counterpart German.
Maria Luís Albuquerque stressed that all won with the agreement “in particular Greece” and added that it would make sense to adopt the proposed relaxation for Greece in Portugal, for this is part of a program that Portugal ended almost a year ago. “It makes sense to think in the same terms, the situation in Portugal is different from Greece,” he stressed.
The Greek Government has to submit by Monday a list of measures to troika . . Only if the evaluation is positive if may initiate parliamentary procedures required by some countries to approve the extension of the program
PCP, “Finance Minister began to way “
But the general secretary of the PCP, Jerónimo de Sousa, said the government” always aligned with what was worst in the European guidelines and is legitimate reading of subservience to Germany, “because the minister Finance began to way. “
” None of us know what happened in the Eurogroup, but it is good to remember that this troika of the intervention process, particularly in our country, before the dictates of the Union European economy and its directory, Passos Coelho said at the time that your program was the ‘troika’ program, and that, at all costs, this program had to be implemented, “he said.
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