BRUSSELS: Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Friday that a bailout deal reached with the country's international creditors will take Greece forward as it will create a more stable financial system without harming bank depositors.
"It takes Greece forward in the sense that the financial system should be much more stable from now onwards. There is a promise of recapitalisation of the banks, without any of the depositors having to bail in or anything to worry about," he told reporters.
"The process of reversing the negative effects of capital controls will start very quickly and will speedily return the banks to where they were before, hopefully on a far firmer footing," Tsakalotos said.
The comments came after finance ministers from the euro zone agreed, after six hours of talks, to lend Greece up to 86 billion euros.
However Tsakalotos said the success of the country's third bailout will depend on how Greeks respond to the challenges of tough reforms.-
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