There Is This Concept Of Politics As

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.

If Greece Had Gone Through A Very Normal Political Life, I May Have Not Been In Politics. But Just The Fact That I Lived Through Huge Upheavals And Very Difficult Struggles And Polarization And The Barbarism Of Dictatorships - That Made Me Feel That We Had To Change This Country.

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.

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.