One can only suspect political motivesbehind the institutions’insistence that new cuts be made to pensions despite five years of pillaging by the memoranda. The Greek government is negotiatingwith a plan, andhas presented nuanced counterproposals.
We will patiently waitfor the institutions adhere to realism. Those who perceive our sincere wish for a solution and our attempts to bridge the differences as a sign of weakness, should consider the following:
We are not simply shouldering a history laden with struggles.
We are shouldering the dignity of our people,as well as the hopes of the people of Europe. We cannot ignore this responsibility. This is not a matter of ideological stubbornness. This is about democracy.
We do not have the right to bury European democracy in the place where it was born.