It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

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.

We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.

I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.

Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.

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