The last couple of Prime Ministers, Kostas Caramanlis and George Papandreou, when they felt they had reached the halfway mark of their tenure, re-shuffled their governments and made preparations for the inevitable transition to no power. (Their personal finances were never overlooked.) The current Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, does not have the luxury of a reshuffle in his coalition government, but is planning a constitutional revision instead. Without a doubt, he is a man with an agenda.

A rose is a rose is a rose. An election is an election is an election. And business is business. 

We have the full spectrum from the gay activist Vallianatos to the homophobic Kasidiaris on display. This palette is a fairly representative slice of Modern Hellas.

A Letter from Athens is always welcome on the provision that it is written by someone who knows how to write, and read by people who know how to read.