Second, the partisan nature of Greek political life that polarizes opinions, minimizes the middle ground, excludes consensus and degrades expertise, unless it is partisan. As long as these attitudes persist, outside knowledge will have a marginal role in the formulation of policy decisions.
And I am really very sorry to notice tonight that Nikos Theocarakis’ speech before mine was such an example of partisan politics, since I used to be a Finance minister in the government that he described as almost colonial in his partisan speech.