(Everything that comes in threes is perfect)
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) – Publication date: 14 February 2016
The essence of this old Latin rule is associated with perfection and satisfaction, but the expression is often used in a darker context: calamities, too, can come in threes, one compounding the other.
Since 2010, Greece has had enough of perfect such threes, for example, bailouts, memoranda, and ruinous "help" from the tottering EU; and public denigration by "partners," threats from the IMF and other such august entities, and backroom plans for a Grexit...Read more