Greek singer Nana Mouskouri offers her pension to help end debt crisis

By Nick Squires, in Rome Published: 4:53PM GMT 02 March 2010

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Nana Mouskouri"s majority appropriate well well known songs embody The White Rose of Athens Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Mouskouri, whose majority appropriate well well known songs embody Greece, Land of Dreams and The White Rose of Athens, served as a part of of the European council for five years in the 1990s and draws a grant of around �14,700 from Brussels each year.

The diva, who available 1,500 songs during a career travelling half a century, pronounced she would present her grant "until the nation emerges from the mercantile crisis."

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She was dissapoint by the approach Greece had been portrayed around the world, she told the Eleftherotypia every day newspaper.

"I do not wish Greece to be treated with colour similar to a cancer," she said.

There have been drawn out calls for rich Greeks, together with those from the country"s outrageous diaspora, to minister income to a inhabitant account to assistance the nation stand out of the mercantile black hole.

Mouskouri, who was innate in Crete, has sole some-more than 300m records, creation her one of the best-selling singers of all time.

During a 50-year career she available with Quincy Jones and Julio Iglesias, had a strain created for her by Bob Dylan and achieved in some-more than half a dozen languages.