Euro membership not a certainty, says Venizelos

From ekathimerini.com

Greece's Evangelos Venizelos, who will lead the ruling Socialists into the May 6 election, said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday that euro membership is not a certainty regardless of the outcome. "There are certain misconceptions that worry me: for instance, the misconception that whatever happens we are not going to leave the euro,» Venizelos is quoted as saying in the Guardian. Venizelos, 55, quit as finance minister to lead the PASOK party after spearheading the marathon debt talks that were concluded with the world's biggest debt restructuring in March. "Europe and the eurozone ... (full story)