Erik Kirschbaum reports for Reuters
Greece  faces severe restrictions on its sovereignty and must privatize state assets on  a scale similar to the sell off of East German firms in the 1990s after  communism fell, Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said.
In an interview  published after euro zone finance ministers in the Eurogroup approved a further  12 billion euro ($17.43 billion) installment of Greece's bailout, Juncker said  he was optimistic that measures agreed with Athens would help to resolve the  country's problems.
"The sovereignty of Greece will be massively limited," he  told Germany's Focus magazine in the interview released on Sunday, adding that  teams of experts from around the euro zone would heading to Greece.
"For the  forthcoming wave of privatizations they will need, for example, a solution based  on a model of Germany's 'Treuhand agency'," Juncker added, referring to the  privatization agency that sold off 14,000 East German firms between 1990 and  1994.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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