Αssociated Press 2/18/2021 Athens News Agency
ATHENS A strongly pro-privatisation policy and the complete collapse of infrastructure due to the bankruptcy of the Greek state were responsible for the Greek state s inability to manage during the bad weather, opposition MeRA25 party leader Yanis Varoufakis said on Thursday to Real FM radio.
Added to the bankruptcy of the Greek state, he noted, is added a new ill, an obsession with privatisation, both from the troika and the present government . When this concerned networks, which could never be competitive and were by definition a monopoly, and this was combined with privatisation - or the outsourcing of maintenance to private contractors as the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) was doing at present - the results are tragic everywhere in the world, not just in Greece, Varoufakis said.
We all saw how the smaller and more efficient state that has been touted by this government since it came to power as a key objective failed to make the grade.
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