Below is the statement of denial issued by the Secretary General for International Economic Relations, Giorgos Tsipras, regarding the content of his interview with Spiegel Online:
“My supposed interview, published yesterday, 8 July 2015, on Spiegel Online, bears precious little relation to what I actually said to the two Spiegel reporters on 7 July 2015. In the Spiegel Online article in question, whole phrases, and even paragraphs, have been invented and attributed to me – things that I never said. Meanwhile, with regard to issues that I actually talked about, what I said was reported so arbitrarily as to be brutally distorted in both substance and style. The recording of the interview bears irrefutable witness to the above. I am dismayed at the outlook on journalism and journalistic deontology held by those in charge at Spiegel Online.”
July 9, 2015