 The impact of debt crisis on Greece is very severe. The public debt is used as a vehicle, as a lever in order to put forward the austerity measures and to change the character of the society. That is to increase the power of the ruling classes, of the small elite of the rich people and also the very big corporations, international or Greek. And to deprive labor rights and also income from the broad masses. So they keep dismantling the welfare state, they keep cutting wages and pensions and they say that this is necessary in order to tackle the debt problem. However the debt as a percentage of the GDP constantly increases because the recessionary policies decrease the GDP, that is the denominator of the whole index. The crisis is being managed in a way that the majority of the people, that is the working people, the unemployed, the small entrepreneurs and other people who live on their small corporation or their wage are being worse and worse. That is these people, the majority of the society, have to pay for the crisis. They are the ones who suffer from wage reductions, from pension reductions, from unemployment, from the concentration of capital in few hands. On the other hand, the state through these policies overprotects the very rich and the big corporations. We still have a situation where a small minority is being under taxed in Greece, has very big subsidies from the side of the state and on the other hand we have the majority who cannot pay for necessities, who are being over taxed, who see the fear and the risk of unemployment every day in their job if they are not already being fired from their work. I strongly believe that there is an alternative for the whole of Europe. This is not a war, this is not a conflict between one country or the other. This is not a conflict between Germany and Greece or France and Germany, Italy and France and so on. We have a plan which deprives rights and income from the majority of the people for the benefit of the few, so we have to reverse these policies. On the one hand we have to stop austerity, we have to serve and to protect the welfare state, we have to seek for social cohesion and for the common goods of the majority of the people and of course we have to tackle the debt problem on the European level. There are many technical solutions which have been described by many economists even by some who do not belong to the left. We have to press, we have to push the ruling elites to change course, we have to convince people that the coming European elections are of very great importance in order to change the relation of forces in Europe to have progressive parliaments and progressive governments all over Europe which is the beginning for a change of policy. It's a matter of social justice, the people who can't pay for the crisis must pay. This means that we have to introduce a wealth levy, we have to have a fair, clear and just tax system, we have to support the people who are in need, we have to save the welfare state, we believe that a government change in Greece or any other country in Europe is going to work like a democratic domino for a change all over Europe.