My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.