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

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

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.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

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

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.