Making excuses instead of policy

The way those who govern divert responsibility from themselves is a running sore in Greek politics and society. Governments do not evaluate their performance so much on the basis of their successes and failures but rather on whether their predecessors were worse, or whether their would-be successors would be even more so. And so, we are in a perpetual twilight between the failures of others and the dangers they still pose.

This helps governments and their supporters justify inexcusable mistakes, omissions and behaviors. Even worse, the collaboration between local and foreign interests always complicates things, preventing us from seeing reality, from evaluating it correctly and from acting accordingly.

The peculiarities of our "system" transform or undermine the supervisory bodies of the state, of the political system but also of the European Union, as the crisis...