Greek archbishop raps government's handling of debt negotiations

July 16, 2015

The leading Catholic prelate in Greece has criticized the country’s handling of its debt crisis, saying that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras “won the election with promises he could not keep.”

Archbishop Frangiskos Papamanolis of Syros and Santorini said that that the government of Greece will now be hard pressed to restore public confidence, after barely averting an economic disaster when the European Union agreed to a temporary bailout plan. Referring to the tense negotiations that finally produced that agreement, the archbishop said that “the past six months have been a waste of time, since our government hasn’t understood the situation.”

 

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Further information:

• Archbishops accuse Tsipras of 'mishandling' crisis (Tablet)