Tassos Symeonides(Author, Political Analyst)
Copyright @ 2016 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) – Publication date: 17 January 2016
The history of post-1974 Greece is replete with miracle makers of various calibers and personal temperament. All of them emerged from the fantasies of the electorate, with always the proverbial little help from the media and the targets of media barons.
The lingering result of so many miracle makers is visible by the naked eye: Greece lies devastated on the edge of Tartarus.
The rise of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the leadership of the New Democracy party carries all the hallmarks of yet another hatching of a miracle maker. His most prominent hope, we suspect, would be to avoid the fate of his predecessor miracle worker, Mr. Samaras, who disintegrated upon re-entry into Greece’s atmosphere of political realities....Read more