{"id":15140,"date":"2026-04-27T21:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/us-and-the-mirror-ekathimerini-com\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:46:48","slug":"us-and-the-mirror-ekathimerini-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/us-and-the-mirror-ekathimerini-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Us and the mirror | eKathimerini.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301937\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>European institutions sometimes hold up a mirror to us, in which we see Greece\u2019s bad side. This was especially true during the years of the economic crisis, when the entire administrative structure and the political mores that shaped it came under scrutiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, at some point we must stop needing \u201csupervisors\u201d and their observations to correct what we know well is holding the country back. The first step would be to see our weaknesses, without downplaying them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Above all, we must stop justifying primitive political practices that equate political representation with clientelism as \u201cGreek peculiarities.\u201d Some \u201cnational traditions\u201d are meant to be broken.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1301937\/us-and-the-mirror\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European institutions sometimes hold up a mirror to us, in which we see Greece\u2019s bad side. This was especially true during the years of the economic crisis, when the entire administrative structure and the political mores that shaped it came under scrutiny.\u00a0 However, at some point we must stop needing \u201csupervisors\u201d and their observations to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Us and the mirror | eKathimerini.com\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/us-and-the-mirror-ekathimerini-com\/#more-15140\" aria-label=\"Read more about Us and the mirror | eKathimerini.com\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}