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If We Were The Problem, It Would Be Very Convenient, Kick Greece Out, Everything's Fine. But What Happened To Spain? What About Portugal? What About Italy? What About The Whole Of The Eurozone? We Need More Cooperation And Less Simplification And Prejudice About What Has To Happen.

I Have Been Supporting The European Union, But We Are Still A Work In Progress. We Have To Become More Of A United States Of Europe. We Should Talk About Electing A President Of The E.u., Rather Than Having One Selected From The Heads Of Government.

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.

Many People Have Been Pontificating, And Patronizing, And Moralizing, And Scapegoating, Saying You Greeks, You Are The Problem. I Would Say We Greeks Have A Problem. We Are Not The Problem.

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.