Greece’s social insurances minister on Wednesday emphasized that his government should “not rule out alternatives”, when asked if the debt-ridden country should join the so-called “BRICS” development bank.
The latter was recently announced amid heightened hoopla by the leaders of the BRICS, i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Dimitris Stratoulis, a former unionist with the then state-run telephony utility, told the Athens-based Real FM on Wednesday that “if we need to ask for funding and they (BRICS) give it to us with favorable terms and without memoranda or conditions of subjugation for our country, and they simply lend us as you’d lend a normal country, then why should we rule this out?”