We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.

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.

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

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

Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.

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.

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