What now? Papandreou survives confidence vote on handling of Greece debt crisis | World news | guardian.co.uk
Surviving the confidence vote is one thing, it is but a small part of the political process. The other one is in Habermas' beloved public sphere where Greeks hammer out other possibilities besides total compliance with rules imposed elsewhere... Papandreou survives confidence vote on handling of Greece debt crisis | World news | guardian.co.uk But that is the problem isn't it? Succesive Greek governments deceived the European Union and the Greek people into believing that their public finances were sufficiently sound to insert the country into the Eurozone, hiding sovereign debt and public deficits that, left unattended, spiralled out of control beyond manageability. And the political (and the economic space) narrowed leaving out possibilities. Truly sad, even more so when a centre-left government is in charge. It is interesting though how New Democracy (the Greek right) is simply calling for elections. I wonder if they have thought of something the rest of us o...