If capital inflows are a larger problem than mismanagement, do you think that there are any proactive measures that could be taken to prevent future crises?

Because of its history, there is less of an understanding of democracy at the street level in the way that we grew up with it as did our parent and their parents before them – and in any case, the way the administrators also change when Greek governments change does not allow for any continuity of management, or even transfer of knowledge of what needs to be managed. That’s what got them into the mess, and it’s why corruption is so easy to hide, and why it’s so difficult to get out of the mess they’re in.

But if the West presses the wrong buttons, it is still possible for the old adversaries to take advantage of the mood of the people and take over leaving the EU with a Communist State or a Military Dictatorship in its midst.