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When this crisis began you talked a lot about these larger issues, tackling corruption and tax evasion. And then there was this demand from the markets for immediate cuts. Did that force you to abandon efforts on some of the bigger structural changes? What the markets were saying is we...
Is it Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in...
So how do you deal with this? In fact, I think you'll see in these crises two different types of political responses. One, which I would say is a more polarizing and more populist and even scapegoating kind of leadership role. And one which says, no, lets get down...
So sometimes people also have unrealistic expectations of what their state or their democracy can provide. The Greeks of today or tomorrow, can they expect the same social support, the same social welfare state that the generations before them expected? Or are Greeks going to have to recalibrate their expectations...
More checks and balances. Our budget is going to be under the scrutiny of the parliament, but also an independent body. More meritocracy in the public service. We now have a system where people will be chosen only on a meritocratic basis, not a clientelistic basis. This is slowly changing...