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Unfortunately, Corruption Is Widespread In Government Agencies And Public Enterprises.

Greece Has Given Europe The Opportunity To Fix A Defect In The Euro Zone, That Is The Fact That We Did Not Have A Fiscal Union. Now Steps Have Been Taken To Begin That Process. And There Is More Solidarity From Nation To Nation, And That Is A Good Thing. That Has Been Greece's Gift To Europe.

There Is This Concept Of Politics As A Dirty Game. It's A Difficult Game, But It Doesn't Have To Be Dirty. I Think This Is What We Need To Bring To Politics. I Think Politics Around The World Has Very Often Been Captured By Big Interests - 'lobbies' They Call Them In The States.

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.

The Marshall Plan Was After Destruction, And The U.s. Came To Our Help And Obviously This Was Very, Very Important For The Future Of Europe. I Think Now We Have All The Capabilities Of Doing It On Our Own And, In A Sense, We Have To.