I Am Proud Of Being A Greek

There Are Certain Moments In The History Of A Nation When The Choices Made Define The Decades To Come.

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.

You Can Theorise About The Options You Have But In Reality They Are Very Specific.

If We Were Going To Default, We Would Have Decided That Many Months Ago. It Would Be Wrong For The Greek Economy, It Would Be Wrong For The European Economy, It Would Make Things Worse In The End. That's Why We're Taking The Pain And Making These Structural Reforms, And We're On Target.

I Would Like To See Greece As A Case Study, An Opportunity For Europe To Strengthen Its Coordination Of Fiscal Policy.