N. Kaklamanis: “Vindication for the Karamanlis government, the acceptance by the E. Thanksgiving updated data of Eurostat on deficit”

In confirmation of what supports the SW for the components of the deficit from the entrance of the country in the EMU up to the entrance of the IMF and …
the signing of the first memorandum, he proceeded to the Finance Minister, Euclid Τσακαλώτος, in response to a timely question of Member of SW, Nikitas Kaklamanis.
Specifically, mr. Τσακαλώτος -accepting that valid and up-to-date Eurostat data (for the period 1995-2013) for the budget deficit, which sent the Bank of Greece to the commission for the debt and the απομείωσή-confirmed that:
(1) The entrance of Greece in EMU, the period of the premiership of Kostas Simitis, was to fake evidence.
(2) Of the five years (2004-2009) of the government of Kostas Karamanlis, of the three, the deficit was reduced compared with that of the period of 1995-2003, the government of Simitis. In particular, from 4.1% of GDP in 2000 υπεδιπλασιάστηκε 2004, reaching 8.8%. Unlike the three-year period 2005-2007 (so, until the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008) was equivalent to 6,27%.
(3) 25% of The total debt of our country for the purchase of armament programmes, which reached 84 billion (mainly from USA and Germany) in the period of governance. Simitis, compared with only 2 billion of the corresponding period of Karamanlis.
Finally, unfortunately, the Minister of Finance appeared contrary to the recommendation of a committee of inquiry which will investigate how we have arrived at a memorandum, with the novel reply that it is a personal view and not for the government’s position.
After 26 years of my parliamentary experience, I am in a position to know very well that during the parliamentary control over the minister answering on behalf of the government, and not express personal opinions…

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