Eric Woerth: “Greece has lied to itself” – The World

After the victory of the Greek referendum not to Sunday 5 July, Eric Woerth, MP for Oise and general delegate at the party project Republicans called the other countries of the euro area to have a common position. An extraordinary summit of the eurozone to be held Tuesday, July 7.

How do you analyze the non-Greeks in Sunday’s referendum?

Eric Woerth: This referendum was not difficult to win for Alexis Tsipras. Given the delay between the announcement and the vote, there was no real campaign. And then, when asked a people on hard reforms needed it necessarily opposed. Now you have to win the post-referendum. The EU financial assistance is not a bottomless pit and it can not be obtained without consideration. Spanish, Irish or Cypriots did not have to complain. Greece has lied to itself, Tsipras has lied to its people. He leaves us two days now, saying, “We want to stay.” This is unacceptable if they do not reform deep

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How should react to other countries in the euro zone?

The first solution is to embark on the restructuring of Greek debt with longer maturities. This has already been done and this can only be accepted with deep structural reforms in Greece. I’m not sure that the Greek people have understood that. The second solution is to accompany them to the exit of the euro. An organized exit, in order. Because we can not stay in the euro with its own conditions, by going it alone. Or the 18 other countries in the euro area do not count democratically. The important thing is that all the other rulers in the zone have a common position Tuesday

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What did you think of the attitude of Francois Hollande in this crisis?

He wanted to improve its image with his left by posing as negotiator between the Germans and the Greeks . But this has failed completely because Tsipras maintained its referendum

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This crisis should it push the euro zone to reform?

This creates a terrible precedent in European opinion. Now that the Spaniards will say to their leaders in the upcoming elections? We can not give up Europe into the hands of extremists who suggest that there would be accounting Europe frightful Germans and Greeks Europe human kind. Europe is not only a machine to prevent it from turning in circles. But this must lead us to move towards a reform of the euro zone with greater economic convergence notably France and Germany, for example on the corporate tax. It should also create a European monetary fund which would be a more structured tool.