International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde urged Greeks to pay their taxes, saying she is more concerned about sub-Saharan Africans in poverty than Greeks hit by the economic crisis.
Lagarde said Greeks should “help themselves collectively” by “all paying their tax”, adding that she thought “equally” about those deprived of public services by the crisis and those involved in tax avoidance.
Caught in a fifth straight year of recession, Greece is struggling to apply a tough austerity overhaul in return for loans, but has already made drastic cuts to public services. Greece in 2010 committed itself to a reform programme in return for hundreds of billions of euros in bailout funds from the European Union and the IMF to prevent a default.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2012.
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I have some Greek friends and they are very angry with the Germans. . They believed that their politicians are German puppets and they were used and now they are being asked to pay for something that is not their fault. . They also claim that their main source of income is tourism in Greek Islands and Germany is asking them to sell them and make Greece a begger nation!
Beware of Greeks demanding gifts.!