Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

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.

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.

Cooperation and solidarity are necessary requirements in order to bring about the solutions that will once again bring stability to the European integration and bring it back to the track of growth.

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