The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

You can't have euro bonds without more interconnection among the national budget policies.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .