Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

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

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.