BERLIN: Germany on Wednesday rejected a fresh demand from Greece for hundreds of billions of euros in World War I and II reparations, insisting the issue had been legally settled decades ago.
"Over 70 years after the end of the war and more than 25 years after the Two Plus Four Treaty , the question of reparations has been legally and politically settled," said the spokesman, Rainer Breul. In addition, the Greek state accounting office has estimated that private claims for war dead and invalids could be worth a further 107 billion euros.Germany has repeatedly apologised to Greece for past crimes but insists that when it comes to actual payments, the issue was finalised in 1960 in a deal with several European governments.
There was tension in Athens over draconian EU austerity and bailout terms seen to be imposed by Berlin hardliners and scheduled debt repayments run beyond 2060.However, he had put the issue on the back-burner in recent years as he worked with Germany to keep highly indebted Greece in the eurozone and to manage migration and Balkans security.
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