Risk of Grexit 'drastically reduced,' central banker says
The risk of a disorderly Greek eurozone exit has eased substantially, Greece's central banker said in an interview Thursday as he called for a more aggressive pursuit of structural reforms.
“The risk of a Grexit accident has been drastically reduced,” Bank of Greece governor George Provopoulos told AFP, while noting progress on reforms that is enabling the country to enter a “virtuous circle.”
However, Provopoulos called for a “more aggressive” implementation of structural reforms demanded by the country's foreign creditors in exchange for rescue aid.
“We have quite a long agenda of things to do, regarding privatizations, reform in the product and services market, improving the tax collecting mechanism which has a number of weaknesses and so on,” Provopoulos told the agency.
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