Greece’s Prime Minister has announced the proposal of a referendum on a new European debt deal reached last week. The hard-bargained agreement has taken months to hammer out.
希腊总理宣布，计划将上周达成的新欧债协议交由全民公投。这项很难达成的协议是花了数月的时间才达成的。
Prime Minister George Papandreou has given no date or other details on the proposed referendum, which would be the first in Greece since 1974. The new deal aims to seek 50 percent losses for private holders of Greek bonds and provide the troubled eurozone member with 100 billion euros in additional rescue loans.
总理乔治•帕潘德里欧没有给出全民公投的时间和其它细节，这将是希腊自1974年来的第一次全民公投。新的方案旨在帮助希腊公债的私人持有者减少50%的损失，并为这个陷入困境的欧元区成员国提供1000亿欧元的额外援助贷款。
He said, "The referendum for a national response to the crucial national question is the foundation on which to build principles and rules of a new period, which is now beginning for a strong Greece, where the citizen feels that with his vote he shapes it, giving him a strong and dominant voice. We trust the citizens."
他表示：“全民公投可以获得国民对这个极其重要的国家问题的反应，这是新时期建立准则和规章的基础，这个新时期是建立一个强大希腊的开端，希腊国民认为，有他的投票塑造了这个国家，给他一种强烈、统治的发言权。我们信任国民。”