NIKOS KONSTANDARAS

Our country is at peace, but the stakes are as high as if we were at war – a war waged not with battleships, guns and planes but with words and money. Its foot soldiers, in a sense, are the lines of the unemployed, the pensioners crowding outside banks; cars queuing at gas stations are a crippled cavalry; generals are the finance ministers who lob proposals at one another with the aggression of those who will not suffer the consequences. All are caught up in a five-year campaign in which Greece has struggled to meet the terms of the biggest bailout in history....

Our country is at peace, but the stakes are as high as if we were at war – a war waged not with battleships, guns and planes but with words and money. Its foot soldiers, in a sense, are the lines of the unemployed, the pensioners crowding outside banks; cars queuing at gas stations are a crippled cavalry; generals are the finance ministers who lob proposals at one another with the aggression of those who will not suffer the consequences. All are caught up in a five-year campaign in which Greece has struggled to meet the terms of the biggest bailout in history....