Tsipras to MEPs: It should be the right of a national gov't to decide equivalent measures
Trying to dictate to Greece the specific measures it should take in order to meet fiscal targets was an interference with the sovereign rights of national governments, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras commented on Wednesday, while addressing the European Parliament.
"It is the sovereign right of a government to choose whether to increase taxation on profit-making businesses and to not cut the benefits to the lowest pensions, the EKAS, in order to meet fiscal targets," Tsipras told European lawmakers. "If it is not the right of a sovereign government to choose in what way it will find equivalent measures to cover the required targets, then we must adopt an extreme and anti-democratic view. That in the countries that are in a programme there must be no elections. That governments must be appointed, technocrats must be appointed and that they assume responsibility for the decisions."
