Tsipras: We must get rid of stereotype that Greeks are lazy – nrc.nl

Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras at a press conference in Berlin. Photo AFP / Tobias Schwarz

Economy

” We must move away from the stereotype of the lazy Greeks who were victims of the Nazi Germans. That said the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tonight after a conversation with Merkel. He wants to eliminate the diseased relationship between Greece and Germany.

Tsipras responded to the latest cover of the German magazine Der Spiegel , which Merkel photoshopped a picture of Nazi officers of the Acropolis. He called the cover “extremely unfair for the Chancellor and for Germany”.

The outcome of the consultations between Merkel and Tsipras was not groundbreaking. Germany and Greece now know where they can agree and disagree, says Tsipras afterwards. Merkel said in turn that Germany all European allies see as equal, reports Reuters.

“While there are 80 million people living in Germany and we are the largest economy in the European Union, that Europe is built on the principle that each country is equally important – regardless how many people have it. “- Merkel

Tsipras arrived today in Berlin to discuss the Greek debt and the drastic cuts that Tsipras would stop doing the most.