Greece warns Germany of war compensation

2019-01-12 05:37:07

(MENAFN) Greece has informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel that it has a good reason to pursue a legal claim for billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country in World War II.

Germany has discharged Athens' demands in the past, but the Greek president raised the issue again on Friday with Merkel, who is on a two-day visit.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos told Merkel: "as Greeks, we consider these demands legally active and (can be) judicially pursued and should be solved in the competent European forum, judicial forum."

World War II reparations resurfaced as an emotional issue during Greece's 2010-18 period of bailouts when austerity-hit Greeks, stirring up past injustices, blamed their biggest creditor Germany for painful cuts associated with three international bailouts.

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