Irredentism

Given the country's fall from grace over the last eight years, there is clearly nothing to be gained by digging up the past or by deferring blame for the country's bankruptcy exclusively to one's rivals. 

C.P. Cavafy wrote of the "great relief" of an open window in his poem "The Windows" - that is before slipping back into his familiar guarded melancholy and the fear of the "new things" the window may expose.

Questions remain with regard to the early months of George Papandreou's 2009-11 Socialist administration.

The moment of truth, the one that Greece's politicians hoped to postpone forever, is arriving. The impasse in negotiations for a final name for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia suited them; it did not oblige any government, party or politician to do what all fear - to take responsibility for a compromise.

At a party conference, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on party officials and supporters to join forces to "change Greece" and "get rid of the worst government of the post-dictatorship era."

Accusing the administration of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of lies and arrogance, Mitsotakis said it is ND's duty "to unite people, to persuade them that there is another way."

Launching the conservative party's 11th two-day conference on Saturday, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis appealed to party officials and supporters to join forces in order to "change Greece" and "get rid of the worst government of the post-dictatorship era."

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) wants to find a way to break the 26-year deadlock with Greece over its official name, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska told the Guardian on Friday.

A unique database containing the names of people missing since the 1990s Yugoslav wars whose remains have still not been found will be created, governments across the region have agreed.

Boosted by her comfortable victory in the recent vote for the center-left leadership, Fofi Gennimata appears determined to occupy the political space eyed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's ruling SYRIZA party.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci says the Albanians are "a nation with two sovereign states and a dream of joining Euro-Atlantic institutions."