Who will the young trust?

Students in Larissa protest last week's deadly rail collision, which occurred just outside the central Greek city, on Thursday. The main banner reads 'The tears have dried up and turned to rage. Why?' [Giorgos Kydonas/InTime News]

The New Democracy government is up against its toughest challenge right before the elections, facing a surging, unpredictable wave of popular rage. But if the main opposition party, SYRIZA, thinks that this translates automatically to gains for itself, then it has not realized that it, too, is at risk from the anger of the many - those who do not usually take to the streets. Because the catastrophe at Tempe has caused grief and a sense of insecurity not only for the lives lost, but also because of all the chronic problems which remain unsolved and which contributed to it. We endured bankruptcy and the loan memorandums, the pandemic and Turkish belligerence, we are having to deal with the war in Ukraine and high prices. We saw some progress in the past few years, and yet we see that we are still condemned. Our weaknesses are so many, and so basic, that the inconceivable happened.

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