Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has warned Greeces creditors, in an interview to The Wall Street Journal, that its hopes of recovery in 2017 will be compromised if the issue of the countrys debt is not addressed in the next few weeks.
Speaking on Thursday, a day after visiting US President Barack Obama backed the key Greek demand for debt relief, Tsakalotos said that the eurozone has the opportunity to prove it can fix its problems rather than defer them.
If we kick the can down the road and say we will decide in two years over the way to make Greeces debt sustainable, then, he told the paper, investors will also postpone decisions about investing in Greece.
His comments came as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble and other…
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