"The criteria, which were voted in during a period of panic over the public debt, were excessively high, thus fuelling the downturn, reducing state revenues and increasing unemployment, while at the same time handing over the financial control of sea tourism in the Aegean to Turkey," General Secretary of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, Giorgos Vernicos, said.
„Kriterijumi, izglasani tokom perioda panike oko javnog duga, bili su prekomerno visoki, što je izazvalo usporavanje, smanjujući prihode države i povećavajući nezaposlenost, a istovremeno prepuštajući Turskoj finansijsku kontrolu nad pomorskim turizmom u Egeju“, rekao je generalni sekretar Asocijacije grčkih turističkih preduzeća Jorgos Vernikos.