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Greek singer offers pension to fellow countrymen

Greek singer Nana Mouskouri says debt-stricken Greece can have her European Parliament pension to help ease the pressure on the public finances.

The singer, who served as a Euro MP from 1994 to 1999, said she saw the offer as her “duty to the country”. In a letter she urged Greeks to help their country, saying she did not want it to be “treated like a dunce”.

In her letter to the finance ministry, quoted by Greece’s Eleftherotypia newspaper, Mouskouri spoke of the country’s “new injury which is difficult to treat, and I thought about how to help”.

According to the BBC, Mouskouri has sold more than 300 million records in her career. She was an MEP for Greece’s conservative New Democracy party, which is now in opposition.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .