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Greece has been, as it always is, the weakest link in the organism and shows the biggest symptoms of disease.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We've chosen Berlin precisely because nothing can change in a progressive direction without the full participation of Germany in our European endeavors.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We had been inclined not to call a referendum, it would be very difficult to avoid it being presented mainly by the media as a referendum on the euro. And we didn't want that.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
But, you know, in some sense it's hopeless in any case ... I mean, the new terms are even worse, but the terms that they were being offered before were still not going to work. So, I, you know -- I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I was made aware of a certain ‘preference’ by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my... ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I was made aware of a certain 'preference' by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my... 'absence' from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Greek government will make use of all our legal rights.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Seven decades later, it is my country, Greece, that needs such a chance.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Greater austerity is being demanded from an economy that is on its knees, owing to the heftiest dose of austerity any country has ever had to endure in peacetime, no offer of debt relief. No plan for boosting investment. And certainly, as of yet, no 'Speech of Hope' for this fallen people.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Over July-August the finance ministry will have to borrow 6.7 billion euros from our partners in one way or the other to repay bonds from the SMP program, about 27 billion euros of those bonds are still left, which should be repaid in the next months or years. These bonds should be pushed back to the distant future. This is clear.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I started a dialogue with them, saying that I wanted to hear them out, even if that meant that I would be hit, after 15 minutes of a tense but non-violent talk spirits calmed.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
He's creating a number of tensions so that can certainly help the negotiations - but it doesn't change the substance at all. The Greek government ... must finally decide on serious reforms to put the economy back on track.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We agreed that an agreement will be difficult but it will happen and it will happen quickly because that is the only option we have.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Our intention is to do everything necessary to pay back every single euro.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We want a successful Europe, a successful currency union.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's not about money, it's a moral question. I would be happy if it was off the table.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The International Monetary Fund repayments of course we are going to prioritize, we are not going to be the first country not to meet our obligations to International Monetary Fund.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We don't want to sell the family silver of the Greek state at insultingly low prices.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We will continue to deliberate, in order to enhance the chances and actually achieve a very good outcome for the average European.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I have no doubt that, within the next 48 hours Europe, is going to come together and we shall find the phrasing that is necessary so that we can submit it and move on to do the real work that is necessary.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We understand each other much, much better now than we did this morning, so I think this is a major achievement because, you know, from understanding, the agreement follows.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was my ambition to agree on the steps to take the next couple of days so we could spend them well and make more progress between now and Monday, unfortunately we've not been able to do that so we will continue our talks on Monday and move on from there.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's not that the current reform program is to be discarded altogether. I would say that 60-70 percent of what in that list consists of moves and measures that we should want to take ourselves.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We outlined to him the main objectives of this government, which is to reform Greece in a way that has never been tried before and with a determination that was always absent, we also stated categorically that the debt-deflationary cycle in which Greece finds itself is detrimental to all efforts to reform Greece.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We outlined to him the main objectives of this government which is to reform Greece in a way that has never been tried before and with a determination that was always absent, we also stated categorically that the debt-deflationary cycle in which Greece finds itself is detrimental to all efforts to reform Greece.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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