US President Barack Obama toasts with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, right, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, during Obama's visit to Greece on 15 November 2016. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Press Association. All rights reserved.
On 7 November 2016, something unprecedented happened in Greek political affairs, but it went unreported by the international media. Among the few things written about the recent Greek cabinet reshuffle was an article in The Guardian, which put the proper emphasis on the fact that this reshuffle constituted a positive message to the country’s lenders. But there was no mention of the ideological stakes: the growing influence of religion and nationalism on a supposedly progressive government along with the undermining of the human rights agenda.
The hapless state budget in austerity-ridden Greece still pays without fail the salaries of more than 11,000 Orthodox priests.
