The Greek journalist put on trial yesterday, and acquitted, for publishing a list of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts spoke to Reuters today.
The case raises so many questions because despite front page attention from international media, it was almost entirely ignored by the domestic media. Reuters reports, “coverage of his trial was almost completely absent from television news and relegated to the back of most newspapers.”
“The main problem in Greece is the people who govern it. It is a closed group, an elite, one part of which is composed of people from all the parties and the second connected directly or indirectly to business people,” he told Reuters in an interview.
Greek authorities have had the list since 2010 and none of the big names have been prosecuted. Pension and wage reform are nice but corruption and tax evasion, it seems to me, are the large issue in Greece.