“THE George Provopoulos who left prematurely and with quiet dignity has been recorded within the financial historical past of the nation because the Governor of the Financial institution of Greece within the darkest and most troublesome hours of the disaster”, says the previous minister of PASOK in his condolence assertion, Evangelos Venizelos.
“After I assumed the duties of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in June 2011, I discovered Giorgos Provopoulos within the Cupboard, all the time frugal, sensible, concrete and environment friendly.
Absolutely respecting its institutional independence Central Financial institution and the standing of a member of the Board of the ECB, he helped to the utmost in all of the troublesome and delicate manipulations required by the restructuring of the general public debt, the safety of deposits, the soundness and reconstruction of the banking system, the recapitalization of the banks, the safeguarding of public curiosity.
Fortuitously I had the chance to say these publicly and for him to listen to them earlier than he left and I bid him farewell with the identical phrases of recognition and honor to a excessive govt of the banking system, to a healer of financial science however primarily to a public official.
I did not have time to inform him privately, as a good friend who lived by means of him on the battlefield, every thing I wished, however I hope he understood and sensed it. I ask his household to simply accept my honest condolences,” he concludes in his assertion.
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