Editorial: National understanding now!

Greece and its citizens and the entire world seem to be facing a host of trials over the last years.

A series of factors and conditions have led to repeated, extremely intense crises of various kinds that have tested the endurance of states, governments, and societies.

The current decade has confronted Greece with many such trials which are expected to continue.

At first we experienced the decade-long economic crisis that brought the country to its knees and stirred insecurity in the citizenry.

Then there was the migration crisis which brought to Greece and the rest of Europe a wave of desperate and chased refugees and migrants from the poorer regions of Asia and Africa.

Just as we thought we were on the road to a certain normalcy and management of the economic crisis, there emerged a furious global public health crisis that forced the economy and society into unprecedented restrictions and unique impasses.

This summer, in the middle of the public health crisis, we were confronted with an environmental disaster with wildfires of huge dimensions, part of a multifaceted climate crisis, which destroyed virgin pine forests and filled citizens unable to react with sadness, as all of a sudden they lost their homes, crops, animals, and unique ecosystems.

The intensity of the infernos prevented an unprecedented number of firefighters from acting effectively to limit the enormous damage to the environment.

This wave of catastrophic events fueled tensions, facile and hostile judgments, and pointless political antagonism, without measure, and without a sense of the extraordinary conditions.

An independent observer can understand that each of the aforementioned crises highlights the large number of dysfunctions that have...