PM Tsipras interview concludes with wide-ranging questions from audience

The interview began at 11:30 p.m. and ended at 2:36 a.m., with Tsipras saying he enjoyed it, especially in his contact with the Greek people.

Tsipras took questions from the small audience and messages to the show, in a wide range of topics. Audience members included all ages and backgrounds, employed, unemployed. The questions were predominantly about the market and the economy rather than on politics, and several came from SME owners concerned about taxation, lack of liquidity, bureaucracy and a very slow and ineffective justice system.

Among other things, the PM said that high social insurance prices were a problem and needed to be dealt with by a draft bill; meanwhile, a joint ministerial decision was being drafted to cover more than 2.5 million uninsured Greek people - a humanitarian crisis.

Greece has some intrinsic problems that are difficult to be resolved. "I am not one of these people who believe 'foreigners are to blame' but the memorandums were the drug that made us much worse - maybe in latin American and Asia they helped but here they didn't work becuase 80 of SMEs were not exporting.... What the memorandum did was shut them down."

Asked to comment about German reparations, he said the issue was not so much monetary as ethical. "What drives me crazy is that some people accuse us that we are not paying our debts four years now, but those who owe us are wagging a finger at us."

He added that the government would not put the issue to rest. "The German people have a sense of justice... the yellow press has done a good job of making us (look poorly)... it needs two to tango, and Siemens played a great role in corruption in Greece."