After endless talks, existential questions

We got the much-desired loan instalment, we pledged more reforms to the IMF and the Cyprus talks have ended. Greece suddenly finds itself outside the framework of talks with creditors and partners. Nor are there any elections on the horizon. Now the government has to govern, the opposition has to present a program for better government and citizens have to cope with the challenges of the new era.

We will go into an existential tailspin. For the past seven years, with very few intervals, we all had our eyes focused on the "others," waiting for the demands of foreigners in order to react, to consume ourselves with to-ing and fro-ing, with giving and taking, before finishing up where they wanted us.

Now we are left to ourselves. Now we will see the inadequacy of our political personnel - or we will see inventiveness and survival instincts return. We will see if the...