MOSCOW (Sputnik) — France will do everything in its power to avoid this scenario, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Wednesday.
"France refuses that Greece leaves the eurozone… I do not want the disintegration of Europe. This would be a confession of helplessness," Waltz said in a speech in front of the National Assembly, broadcast by BFMTV.
The French prime minister stressed that a decision of the Greek issue was a resolution on "the fate of the whole of Europe."
Greece's overall debt stands at about $350 billion, of which $270 billion is owed to the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and some Eurozone countries.
On Sunday, over 61 percent of the Greek public voted "no" in a referendum on the creditors' demands on spending cuts and tax increases in exchange for another loan, triggering renewed speculation about Greece’s possible exit from the Eurozone.
