An agenda based in the present

In Sunday's edition of Kathimerini, opposition chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote an op-ed titled "Let us write our own history," in which he rightly stressed that Greece's challenge is to exit the crisis, start doing well and regain international confidence and credibility, along with its place in a rapidly changing Europe and world, instead of becoming obsessed with issues that belong in the past and are no longer pertinent.

It was also obvious that the president of New Democracy was seeking to shake his party out of the impasse and meaningless confrontation with the leftist-led government on Stalinism, Nazism and general totalitarian regimes of the past that was sparked by a conference organized by the European Union's presidency in Tallinn last week. Mitsotakis has also called a meeting today in order to brief officials on the party line outlined in his article.