Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 2 May 2020
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)
With the pandemic upending the global-politico-economic system, Greece finds herself in an unenviable position: bankrupt and inundated with semi-insurrectionist illegal immigrants; with unemployment rising again; with the coronavirus impact promising continuing debilitating dislocation of society and economy; with neighboring Turkey hyperventilating in a orgy of aggression, hostility, and expansionism and feeding a proxy war in the Aegean and the Evros frontier; and with the EU sliding irrevocably toward severe “intra-union” friction, and, perhaps, fragmentation, Greece must gather the courage to move in unexplored paths—or sink in permanent existential and national oblivion…Read more