My optimism is not based on technocratic arguments only, but, also, on historical ones.
Please allow me to conclude by quoting the historian Roderick Beaton in his great book: “Greece: A biography of a Modern Nation”: 10 / 14  BIS central bankers' speeches  “Two hundred years ago, during the 1820s, Greeks were the pioneers who first mapped out the route that would lead from the old Europe of great empires to the Europe of nation states that we know today.