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...that the model you're looking at for Greece, the Nordic model? I would say the Nordic model, of course with its Mediterranean dimension. Of course, we have a different cultural style, I think a more anarchistic kind of character. If you free that, in a well-defined framework, that can become a very innovative force...
...Norway or Sweden, people have faith in the state, they have faith that the state functions. How do rebuild that faith - or perhaps build it in the first place. It's easy to say you want to end corruption, but how do you actually change that political culture? The first thing is to realize that it exists as a problem and that we've accomplished already. People are saying: 'we do need this change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption.' How do you do that? I think here we don't have...
...fact that you have these different inputs and different cultures that you can use as resources. But this mixture of cultures I think also has, for me, done one more thing. You can see that Greeks in the diaspora have been very successful. I think one thing one can say is that it's not in our DNA, it's not even in our cultural DNA, to have these problems. We can succeed, we can excel...
...staunch pro-European nation. I think Europe is in a transition, but I think it's a very important transition. I would say it's from being a peace project - which it still is - to being a model for a globalized society, a prototype for a globalized society. Europe began after the Second World War, so it basically was the dream to say: "Never again, war on this continent." And as a matter of fact, it has succeeded in bringing in countries, making them more democratic. Greece, Spain, Portugal initially, then the Central and Eastern European countries. It still...
...this current crisis just been a bump in the development of Europe? Some more cynical analysts have said, this shows the European project is flawed and the euro is doomed. It could have become a crisis - which would have, I wouldn't say Europe would have imploded, but it could have created sort of an unraveling effect. I think what Europe has been able to do over the years is as it's hit crises, it's been able to creatively become stronger, to use the crisis as an opportunity and that's what I've said also...