The chance will not be lost

"This agreement is sustainable," prime minister Antonis Samaras affirms a few days after the Eurogroup in an interview in Proto Thema, through which he replies to all the criticism he received during the past months and the complaints that he is not solving the Greek problem. He adds that "if Greece implements everything it has signed, particularly the structural changes, there will be no more cuts."

Samaras also says that "the process of repurchasing the bonds does not concern the insurance funds. Some have created an issue where there was none." He argues that the money which will enter the market in 2013 is more than the austerity measures, and will ensure the return of liquidity and the breaking of the vicious circle of recession. "We will not allow corruption to thrive and this causes the reactions of those who do not want to change anything." He further says that if we were to exit the euro, things would be much worse with worse memoranda.

He attacks his political opponents by saying "I am ashamed that there are politicians who have clearly shown they would have been happy it if things had not gone well," he described as malicious the criticism that the given solution is not final and as ridiculous "all the talk about transforming Greece into a debt colony."