RIGA, Latvia — Some eurozone finance ministers sharply criticized the Greek government Friday for moving too slowly on steps to overhaul the country’s economy that they say would be necessary to get debt relief and to avoid a default.
The acrimony was one of the strongest signs yet of rising concerns about the economic situation in Greece and the commitment of the country’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, to address it.
“I’ll be quite frank — it was a very critical discussion,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said after the meeting with Varoufakis.
“We had hoped to hear a positive result,” he added, but “we are still far from that.”
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