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Is this the asylum we want?
The historic building of Athens Polytechnic on Patission Avenue looks like it has been bombarded, as do the buildings of the Athens Law School, the University of Economics and Business, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, all of which have been vandalized and pillaged.
Surely the struggle against the dictatorship was not about ensuring the right to asylum in this manner, about educational institutions giving shelter to people making petrol bombs? |
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COMMENTARY |
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Is this the asylum we want?
The historic building of Athens Polytechnic on Patission Avenue looks like it has been bombarded, as do the buildings of the Athens Law School, the University of Economics and Business, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, all of which have been vandalized and pillaged.
Surely the struggle against the dictatorship was not about ensuring the right to asylum in this manner, about educational institutions giving shelter to people making petrol bombs?
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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No faith in ourselves
So why do Greek institutions not function? And, to the extent that they do, why is there such public distrust in them? Greece has, after all, been an independent state since 1831. After nearly two centuries of freedom it is a bit sad to keep going back to the 400-year Ottoman occupation to explain the inefficiency and corruption of our public administration - and the individual selfishness that makes collective effort the exception rather than the rule. |
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