PM: People's sacrifices not in vain
(ANA-MPA) -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday was quoted by a mass circulation Athens daily as stressing that "the Greek people's sacrifices will not be in vain", referring to the recent batch of austerity measures announced by the government. "Our first order of business is saving our economy. It is the first and necessary step towards proceeding to the future," he said, in comments carried in an interview in the Saturday edition of the daily "Vima". "I will not tolerate scandalous favoritism being christened justice; the privileges of the few dubbed vested rights; provocative wealth as culture, parasitic profit considered as entrepreneurship and tax evasion as gumption," he added. Finally, he said the country's partners are recognising the volition to correct the problems facing the Greek economy, while at the same time acknowledging that Greece cannot be abandoned in the battle against international (financial market) speculators. (ANA-MPA)
