A great step homewards

Sometimes, exerting power can break through the limits of political management, offering joy to those who wield it and to those whom it helps. As when a prime minister focuses on the pain of a small group of people and, with one push, propels a long-running struggle for justice towards resolution. This occurred in Athens a few days ago, when Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed the will to help "Greece's lost children" regain the citizenship that they were deprived of when they were given up for adoption abroad, some 50, 60 or 70 years ago. In a meeting at his office in Maximos Mansion last Tuesday, the prime minister told professors Gonda Van Steen and Mary Cardaras that he will push through legislation to resolve the issue. 

For years, some 500 people who were born in Greece have been trying to regain their citizenship. But they have faced bureaucracy, indifference, and, at times...