How easy is it to predict where our country will be in 2050? This question occupied his last panel yesterday. Conference “Circle of Ideas” “National Strategy and International Spin”. Speakers attempted to define a “strategic national project for Greece until 2050” while recognizing the complexity of the undertaking, especially in the highly volatile environment shaped by current conditions.

mr. Evangelos Venizelos he emphasized that it was essential to make predictions based on the experience of previous years and not succumb to fatalistic perceptions and carelessness, which would come back even worse than before the aide-mémoires.

“The only thing that can be said for sure is that in the meantime there will be major geopolitical changes and major imbalances,” said Kostas Kostis, professor of economic and social history at the Hellenic National Academy of Sciences. As the central issue we will have to face as a country, Mr. Kostis identified the issue of social justice because, he says, this is where all the resistance, all the backlash and militancy arises for every reform the country needs. .

K Director Alexis Papachelas emphasized that in order to see where we are going in the future, we must take a critical look at the past, tell more truth in public debate and, thirdly, ensure that any vision is accepted by a significant part of society. He identified two main goals: to “pass on the Greek territory to the next generation without loss”, which he added he does not take for granted, and to solve the problem of demographics by integrating immigrants and connecting with the diaspora and the brain drain generation.

Writer Christos Homenidis has taken the complexity of the vision project 27 years in depth, looking back 27 years to 1995. According to him, no one at the time could have imagined much of what we are experiencing today in terms of technological progress, economic conditions, the return of the Puritans, the resurgence of civil strife, the war in Ukraine.