Greek premier: I'll fix economy no matter what

Greece will pull its economy out of its worst crisis in decades by tackling corruption and waste regardless of the political cost, Prime Minister George Papandreou has vowed.

Papandreou has announced a raft of measures to reduce Greece's staggering (EURO)300 billion ($440 billion) public debt by 2012 and gradually bring the budget deficit _ projected at 12.7 percent for 2009 _ to below the European Union's requirement of 3 percent of a country's economic output by the end of 2013.

"We don't have an orthodox cocktail of measures," Papandreou told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday from Copenhagen, where he was attending the …