I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

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

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.