Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the following statement regarding reports contained in an article in the German daily Die Zeit:
“The article in the newspaper Die Zeit that – in the context of a long profile on Mr. Asmussen – refers to the supposed content of our conversation during our recent meeting in Athens, on 22 August 2013, at the Foreign Ministry, is totally inaccurate.
I await the official denial of the article by Mr. Asmussen himself and the European Central Bank, and I hope I won’t need to come back to this issue.”
September 20, 2013