PROBLEM

Yesterday was Europe Day. N.D. organized an event with the participation of three prime ministers. PASOK attacked N.D. for the Predator. SYRIZA is something in between. And the KKE, like every year on such a day, recalls in its announcement of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Nations that May 9, 1945 will be “Always in the hearts of people, always in the eyes of citizens.” . “A strong KKE is, as always, a strong people!” – concludes the statement of the KPD, adorned with the famous photograph of a Red Army soldier raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. Few original items.

DILEMMA

Inside or outside Greece. Nikos Papandreou, as you know, has already assumed the duties of an MEP, replacing the resigned PASOK President Nikos Androulakis. So PASOK has another active Papandreou (besides former Prime Minister Giorgos) who seems set to make the necessary run outside of Greece. In fact, not only in Greece or Brussels, but in the wider region. Nikos Papandreou, as a member of the Socialist group, will be next Sunday, May 14, in the villages of the national Greek minority in Albania, where municipal elections are taking place, as an observer mission from the European Parliament. Nikos Papandreou, who will be there next weekend, himself asked to join the mission, which is understandable, since the situation in the villages of the national Greek minority cannot but interest Athens, especially at a time when Albania is starting serious accession negotiations with the EU

FACE

Euclid Tsakalotos, former finance minister, current social media commentator. Left-handed (with right-handed genes). Commenting yesterday on the dislike of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who called the former Finance Minister SYRIZA a “Marxist economist”, Mr. Tsakalotos felt it necessary to joke a bit on social media. “Not only am I a Marxist, but I live in a hut with a black cat, dozens of herbs and a broom (Nimbus 2000) plowing Athens at night (I think he already knows this through the Predator),” wrote Mr. Tsakalotos, apparently thinking that he’s having fun. First of all, someone needs to let him know that the first Harry Potter movie is already 22 years old since it was first shown (2001), so with these Nimbus 2000 things, it’s not reaching younger audiences, only forty years old. something . Plus, this phase of the Predator had already sold out on social media long before the self-proclaimed Marxist economist discovered it. And finally, as Mr. Tsakalotos perfectly understands, what he says is complete nonsense, as today’s normal young people would say. Now, if he finds the discussion of finances amusing, he could include some other movie saga, preferably from the 70s (Monty Python).

PLACE

Breakfast and nightclubs. Namely, the broadcasts of the morning or evening television zone of television stations, where all political leaders who respect the opinion of their communications advisers went. Political leaders appear there, as is customary in sterile public slang, “people”, preferring to talk about their personal, marital status, psychological difficulties, habits, hobbies, and the like. Many will argue that an appearance similar to that of political leaders gives them a special weight, as well as what they are trying to convey to citizens. They appeal, say the highlanders, to the lowest common denominator. Certainly not admitting to oneself that the denominator is not accidental, and certainly not because the political system has taken some measures of self-defense.

ATTACK

“Both Velopoulos and everything that is based on a program agreement,” SYRIZA will cooperate, said (ERT 3) Kostas Zuraris. He even wondered: “Why didn’t he cooperate with ANEL, which was a national-patriotic party?” N.D. didn’t he collaborate with PASOK Venizelos and Giorgakis?” Mr. Zuraris did not, of course, say anything that was not already known to everyone. In 2015, SYRIZA partnered with the atomized far right to form a government. Why not do it again? Such proposals contribute to the pluralism of the post-election partnership debate. The sky is the limit.