Lost generations and obsessions

From 2008 onward, the international system has seen a number of crises blow up: credit, financial and fiscal crises that were followed by the migration crisis and the exacerbation of several geopolitical crises.

Geography, combined with Greece's failure to adapt to changing economic conditions and certain mistakes made by the European Union, resulted in the country finding itself at the center of the mess.

Greece has already gone through 12 years of hardship that mostly hit its younger generation. The debt crisis saw thousands flee, and the brain drain seems unlikely to be reversed any time soon. This column raised the issue of Greece's intergenerational gap about a decade ago, but little has improved since then.

The decline of the Education Ministry's influence over the past few years is a powerful sign of how much real attention is being paid to the next...