The new government in Greece must put the country’s bailout programme back on track and Greeks must back reforms to ensure they succeed, ECB executive board member Joerg Asmussen said on Monday. Although important reforms had been implemented, “many other necessary reforms have not been followed through due to weak programme ownership,” Asmussen told a conference here organised by the Economist magazine. “The programme is the best option for Greece,” he said, referring to the raft of austerity measures agreed by Athens in return for two rounds of rescue loans and a public debt write-off that have kept the country afloat.
