my guest is greece's economy minister, dimitri papadimitriou.s there any way out of the hole greece is in? dimitri papadimitriou, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me. there you were at the end of last year, enjoying your post as a highly respected academic economist in the united states. you were plucked from that into a senior ministerialjob, the economy minister in athens. do you regret taking thatjob, given what has happened in the last six months? actually, i don't. i think it's an important challenge. i cherish the opportunity to serve my country and i think i can do some good. and therefore, over the last seven months that i've been in office, i have tried to find what is the best approach to turn around the economy, along with the help of my colleagues, not only in the ministry but in the other cabinets. your colleagues, you put it. i mean, your boss, let's face it, alexis tsipras, a man with whom, in ideological terms and economic analysis, you share very little. that must make your job pretty difficult. i think that t