Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: 28 April 2015
Luck is generally recognized as a crucial part of success.
Without it, most of us would admit, things can be a lot more complicated.
In politics, luck is not only important, it is critical. Right now, Greece needs luck more than any other ingredient in her struggle to survive the most barbaric "fiscal consolidation" in history which threatens to consume her very existence.
Cornered by her creditors, who demand she auctions her body and soul in the "free market" so that a practically unpayable mountain of debt is paid in full, Greece is being methodically drawn and quartered without hope of escape...Read more