Q&A
Τάσσος Συμεωνίδης
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 11 July 2019
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." -- Aesop
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been hailed by some foreign media as a reformist “steamroller.” Can he really fit the description under the current circumstances?
Let’s be honest, Mitsotakis faces a Herculean job. Four and a half years of distorted and disastrous ideological fantasies serving as “policy” have devastated the economy, broke the back of the middle class, elevated cronyism and corruption to the role of primary government tools, and sowed division, fear, and loathing across the land. Read more