MEP Richard Sulík: Greece will cost Slovakia dearly

Aléxis Tsípras - leader of the Greek coalition of the radical left party Syriza that won in the early parliamentary elections was appointed Prime Minister. Syriza promised Greeks a stop to all the austerity measures and reforms which Athens has agreed to as a condition to draw on foreign financial assistance worth €240 billion. There is no support in the Eurozone for any kind of write-off of the debts of Greece, stated head of the group of Finance Ministers of the Eurozone Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The interests of Greece will be very low in the upcoming years, as they were given a lot of time to pay off their loans, he continued. Slovakia was one of the countries that participated in the loan to Greece. On Monday Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) chairman and MEP Richard Sulík, questioned Syriza's pre-election vows. Sulík brought up what he called a lack of balance between Eurozone economies. "The euro is used by highly productive countries like Germany and the Netherlands and by indebted Greece alike. After the election was won by Tsipras, who's been vocal about cancelling Greek debt, forgiving the debt is a lot more likely now. It'll cost Slovakia too - dearly," he added. Sulík recollected that Slovakia was the only Eurozone country to decline to chip in towards the first loan to Greece in 2010; in fact it was his party that voted against the bailout package. The second bail-out package in 2011 passed through the Slovak Parliament, with Sulík's party voting against it.