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EDITORIAL |
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Citizens are right to worry
The government's most unfortunate handling of the Vatopedi affair is reaching its lowest point today, with the majority party's unprecedented abstention from the parliamentary vote for a preliminary judicial investigation.
Even if one were to accept the government's legal arguments, we are left with the image of a ruling party that is afraid of itself. Because in politics, for good or ill, battles are won by those who wage them, not by those who avoid them. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Life in times of crisis
In the early 6th century BC, Solon, one of the «Seven Wise Men,» wrote that the evil in a city entered the home of every person, that neither doors nor high walls could keep it out. Evil in the early 6th century BC took the form of a serious economic crisis that led nobles to seize the best land while poor farmers, who were unable to pay their debts, were forced to become indentured serfs on their own land. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Piety gone sour
Greece is the home of great political theater. From the invention of democracy 2,500 years ago to the ritual protest marches to the US Embassy that have marked the years since democracy's most recent incarnation in 1974, the people and their leaders have been players in the long epic through history. But even by those historical standards, the current performance in Athens has to rank among the most bizarre. |
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