Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.