Will things finally change in Greece? Werner Langen and Nikos Chountis debate the country's future after its citizens went to the polls once again.

Interview: Hope for Greece after the elections?

On 17 June the eurozone held its breath  waiting for the Greek election results.

The Greeks have decided  in favour of the euro and the EU,

For many it's time to look positively  into the future and to lay down arms.

Athens expects Germany in particular  to change its approach.

German MEP Werner Langen  and Greek MEP Nikos Chountis.

The agreements aren't German terms and  conditions, they are mutual agreements.

They are based on the total failure  of Greek policy,

which wasn't able to carry out reforms  and bring about growth.

There continues to be harsh pressure,  especially from Germany,

But the agreements, by which I mean  the memorandum, are a failed recipe.

Ms Merkel herself admitted  that the first memorandum was wrong.

This is a contestation of the political  austerity she wants to impose in Europe.

The election results are a first step.  What needs to happen now?

First they have to sort things out  in their own country.

Taxes have to be paid, the rich should  no longer receive special treatment,

bureaucracy has to be changed completely,

investment conditions  have to be established,

and an agreement with the unions  has to be reached

so that they stop  paralysing Greece with strikes.

These are the problems.  Why has tourism declined in Greece?

Because even at the airport people had  to deal with striking bus and taxi drivers.

How can they trust a system  that is killing itself?

the first country with austerity policies  to be implemented via a memorandum,

will also have an effect on other countries,  especially those under a memorandum.

I think it was a strong statement by the  Greek people to refuse the austerity policies

and a sign to Europe  that these policies are not viable.

They encounter resistance  from all Europeans.

Why should the voters trust the parties  that have led Greece into this dead end?

but the voters have given a mandate  to these two parties.

They need to rebuild Greece, either with  new staff or new conditions from outside,

and bring the democratic development level  back from that of a developing country

We are not confident that the parties which  will be in power again will change anything.

We strongly doubt  that they will renegotiate anything

and we're sure that the EU leadership and  Merkel will not loosen this austerity policy.

The President of the Commission  has rarely visited Greece, if at all.

Has Brussels done a useful job or could we  have expected more from the institutions?

The Commission hasn't intervened much  at all and even embellished the situation.

Now it's looking for unworkable solutions,  such as eurobonds,

which are incompatible with European law.

Neither Mr Barroso nor his Commission  deserve any praise.

I don't think Mr Barroso  has been to Greece since 2009.

Whether that's necessary or not,  is debatable.

Many have been to Greece recently,  many representatives of the EU.

Many claimed that  they wanted to help Greece.

But most of them came to propagate  Merkel's scaremongering.

And I'm not afraid to point out  that Mr Schulz did the same.

He was ill-informed and called  the Left's programme dangerous.

So they're free to come to Greece,  nobody will forbid them doing so,

but they should arrive there well-informed.