MEPs rounded on Greek prime minister Alexis Tspiras on Wednesday, urging him to more transparent about the reforms he wants to put in place to keep his country inside the eurozone.
Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, who now leads the Liberal group in the European Parliament, told Tspiras that he has to deliver wide-ranging proposals if he wants to stay inside the single currency.
“I am angry because you are talking about reforms, but we never see concrete proposals of reforms…let’s propose to end of privileges in your country, the privileges of the shipowners, the privilege of the military, the privilege of the orthodox Church in your country.”
The MEP asked the Greek premier if he wanted to be remembered as “as an electoral accident who made his people poorer in his country? Or do you want to be remembered, Mr Tsipras, as a real revolutionary reformer?”
Verhofstadt had urged Tspiras to address the chamber in Strasbourg, France, after he initially refused to appear.
