Time running out as problems mount

Parliament is seen during a statement connected whether to analyse two erstwhile agriculture ministers, based connected the findings of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office of large-scale fraud successful the OPEKEPE subsidies agency. [InTime News]

As attraction is turned to who was and particularly to who wasn’t astatine a caller publication presumption by an MP and authoritative of ruling New Democracy, and while we spend hours debating the clashes successful Parliament, the rifts forming successful the center-left camp, hypothetical shake-ups of the governmental system with the accomplishment of caller parties made up of aged faces and different such “news” of a strictly home nature, the existent problems we look arsenic a state and arsenic a society conscionable support growing. And the much they grow, the little apt are the chances of them being resolved anytime soon.

What is being done, for example, with the contented of water scarcity, which, arsenic experts person warned again and again, will rear its ugly caput – and not successful the distant aboriginal – taking a toll adjacent connected the country’s main source of income, which is tourism? As Kathimerini precocious reported, not enough. Infrastructure projects meant to amended water absorption person stalled amid opposition, fearfulness of their governmental outgo and concerns that they will harm vested interests. We’re besides getting a batch of alarming signals from the country’s nationalist hospitals. And each so often, different caller ungraded emerges (apart from the immense 1 involving the workplace subsidy bureau OPEKEPE) concerning the embezzlement of nationalist funds, stoking nationalist anger, and then being consigned to the class of issues that are “under investigation.” Local authorities and the authorities are scrambling to marque up for shortcomings and shortfalls from mediocre waste absorption practices. Incidents involving decrepit buses are too galore to beryllium ignored. And these are conscionable a very fewer of the galore vital matters – with water being the astir important – demanding solutions. If not solutions, then astatine slightest moves that will pb to existent solutions and will not beryllium abandoned soon aft being announced.

With a fewer exceptions, the government’s inertia suggests that it is simply buying clip until the adjacent predetermination – clip that is becoming progressively costly. Former premier curate Alexis Tsipras’ caller actions, meanwhile, person lone intensified the phenomenon, ensuring that the governmental constitution spends the adjacent mates of months bickering astir the past, astir who was “deluded” and who was “rapacious,” stirring up memories of bygone nightmares and centering attraction further connected the adjacent election. And arsenic attraction is diverted there, the problems will grow.

The information is that there are gains to beryllium made by diverting attraction distant from the important reforms and measures that are not being taken. By whom? Not conscionable the governmental system, but besides by a assemblage of society that benefits from inertia and from unresolved problems. The murky veil covering each sorts of vested interests is what is keeping the state deprived of oxygen and growth.