Is it a European country?

By Socrates Aristotle

Two recent European press articles that question and question whether Greece is a European country, should be of particular concern to us…

Here is what they write: "Is Greece a European country?" wondered in an article in the French newspaper Le Monde two months ago.

The Italian journalist Bernardo Vali of Repuddca, commenting, replied: "It is true that Greece no longer produces the eternal standards of beauty, just as Rome is no longer the homeland of Law. The same goes for many other centers of European culture. "But to trust only the level of per capita income and the fluctuations of the common currency to determine the relationship with Europe and therefore with its culture is a crime."

As an immediate and valid answer are the words of Etienne Roland, former director of the French School in Athens and professor of Greek Archeology at the Sorbonne University: "I feel deeply humiliated as a philhellene when newspapers write that Greece is a less European country. I feel humiliated as a Frenchman, when my compatriots cultivate the myth of the Greek as a liar and cunning. If Greece is not a European country, which country deserves this title? .. »