Allegations met with silence

A week after Kathimerini's interview with the former president of the Archaeological Receipts and Expropriations Fund (TAP), Aspasia Louvi, in which she claimed that Greece's culture minister is being held ransom to vested interests, there has not been a single statement to refute her allegation.

The silence is strange considering the hard-line approach of security guards at the country's museum and archaeological sites or the minister's habit of announcing so-called "memorandums of agreement" on a near-daily basis in response to critics who accuse her of being idle.

It is surprising that the union of museum and archaeological site employees (PEYFA) did not react with the usual "surprise and indignation" to Louvi's allegations last Sunday. It is not just the severe blow inflicted by Louvi against a system that has been corrupt for decades, as she went on to...