"On the basis of the finance ministry's assessments, it would be feasible to shrink the deficit to the Community's legally accepted level within 2005, but the Commission believes that this hypothesis is very optimistic, and that the adoption of fiscal adaptation measures will also be needed in 2006," Alogoskoufis said at a news conference in Brussels after the ECOFIN meeting. "The government is willing to strike at the root of the problem, taking the necessary structural measures and curbing wasteful spending in the public sector."
“Na temelju procjene ministarstva financija, bit će izvodljivo uklopiti manjak za 2005 godinu u zakonski prihvatljivu razinu Unije, ali Komisija vjeruje kako je ta procjena vrlo optimistična, te kako će i u 2006. godini biti potrebno usvajanje mjera za fiskalnu prilagodbu“, kazao je Alogoskoufis na tiskovnoj konferenciji u Brusselsu nakon sastanka ECOFIN-a. “Vlada je spremna udariti u bit problema, poduzimajući potrebne strukturne mjere i ograničavajući nepotrebne troškove u javnom sektoru“.