Desolate Elliniko

The economy is in dire need of stability and trust, and yet many players who ought to pursue these goals seem indifferent to them. From the beginning it was clear that Greece's crisis was not about debt alone, it was also political and cultural.

It remains, above all, a crisis of trust: The state does not trust citizens and they do not trust the state; citizens do not trust each other; there is no trust between Greek governments and EU partners and foreign creditors. Suspicion and distrust contributed greatly to the crisis; at the same time, the crisis "confirmed" to everyone why they expected ill of others. This still drives the crisis.

For us Greeks, what is important is not so much what "others" did to us as what we have done to ourselves. The longevity of the crisis stems from our inability to build a climate of trust in our country, with foreign players...