Reciprocal effort. Calling on Greece to meet its commitments is a necessary step, but it is not enough. Also to be taken into consideration are its history, its millennia-old civilisation and its anomalies.
Greece, for its part, has to understand that the other members of the eurozone are not able at present to shoulder its debts. What the Greek authorities are looking for is unrealistic, and their idea of seeking war reparations from Germany (estimated by Syriza at €162 billion, half of...