We all needed a moment or two to recover from Development Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis’s “the dog ate my memorandum” moment this week, but now the dust has settled it’s clear that regardless of whether it was a monumental gaffe or a misguided tactical move, the PASOK official’s plea of ignorance encapsulated the dilemma that’s been plaguing Greece throughout this crisis.
Hovering between confusion and collapse, Greece is suffering from the most extreme state of schizophrenia as it flits from all-out opposition to hands-down acceptance of the terms being attached to the emergency funding being provided by the European Union and International Monetary Fund.
“As Citizens’ Protection Minister, I had to tackle crime. I did not have time to study the memorandum,” were the immortal words uttered by Chrysochoidis this week in reference to his failure to pore over, or even skim through, Greece’s loan agreement with the troika in May 2010.
Nick Malkoutzis
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