Countries Are Not Like Financial Markets. Social

As Long As I Feel I Am Doing What I Think Is Right And Just For My Country, For The Greek People, That Is Enough For Me. Saving Greece From This Crisis Was The First Thing On The Agenda. We Are Now On A Much More Normalised Road.

At Times Of Distress, We All Like To Recall The Advice Of Fathers And Mothers. The Best Advice My Father Gave Me Was To Keep Faith And Deep Confidence In The Potential Of The Greek People; Nurture The Belief That They Can Do Things.

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.

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.

But Sovereign Debt Is A Wider Question Not Only In Europe But Across The Globe. While Every Country Is A Unique Case, I Think It's Not An Issue Of Countries Acting On Their Own. We Need A More Coordinated Strategy Not Only In Europe But Around The World.