ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will draft a plan to shore up its public finances according to its own targets and will implement it faithfully, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday.
"Our aim is to formulate a programme based on our principles, on our targets, we can follow our own way," George Papandreou told a news conference.
"It is particularly in our own interest to follow that programme with credibility to prove that we can chart our own way, which is to protect the poor and the middle class, who carry no responsibility for the crisis or for the previous government's faults."
Greece, pressured by markets and its EU peers, is putting together a fiscal consolidation roadmap to bring its bloated budget deficit under the European Union's 3 percent cap in three years.
(Reporting by Dina Kyriakidou and Harry Papachristou; Writing by Ingrid Melander)
