EDITORIAL

The services of the Hellenic Post (ELTA) were not at a satisfactory level even before the leak of their customers’ data was revealed in March 2022.

The inability to set clear and permanent building regulations is one of the perennial failures of the Greek state. But now the conditions exist to fix this deficit as well. T

The deployment of new technologies has made Greek authorities more adept at detecting tax evasion. Inspections are more targeted, more extensive, more transparent. 

One of the objectives of the Culture Ministry is to provide support to Greek artists and ensure the establishment of an efficient and transparent mechanism for the collection and distribution of copyrights.

School bullying and, more broadly, adolescent violence are social problems that cannot be solved by administrative decisions alone. 

It’s been just 10 months since the last national election and the government won by a landslide. So, it is ludicrous from both a political and democratic standpoint that its legitimacy should come into question.

A chain of failures have wounded citizens’ sense of security. When lives are lost on a train, when citizens are murdered on the doorstep of the police station, faith in the state’s ability to fulfill its fundamental mission is shaken – with serious political consequences.

The state of public transport in the Greek capital is disheartening, but without reliable public transport, traffic cannot be dealt with. Nor can the problem of pollution in the city be drastically reduced. 

Apathy and a shortage of professionalism and sensitivity can lead to tragedy. The Greek state is wholly unprepared to meet the basic challenges before us.

How many femicides and how many “national action plans” on violence against women still need to happen before the police can implement a protocol in cases of complaints like the one in Agioi Anargyroi late Monday night?

The presence of the Greek authorities on Mykonos to conduct inspections is necessary. However, the situation is not going to change substantially if the local community is not mobilized and if the local businesses do not realize the impasses created by anarchic development. 

For decades, prime ministers’ closest aides and advisers acted noiselessly and as far away from the lights of publicity as possible.