Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sex assault case should have no impact on joint European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout plans for distressed eurozone states, the European Commission said Monday.
“We are totally confident that there will be continuity in the operations and decision-making processes of the IMF,” said Amadeu Altafaj, spokesman for EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn.
“This should not have any impact whatsoever for the programmes aiding Greece, Ireland and Portugal,” he told a news conference after Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in New York, hours before talks in Brussels he was due to attend.
The eurozone finance ministers’ talks Monday are being held to approve 78 billion euros of EU-IMF loans to the government in Lisbon.
