Costas Simitis

Greece is also a country of creativity, innovation, and productivity, of a younger generation that is champing at the bit and which can spread its wings and fly if only it is given the right opportunities.

'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' the ex-PM said.

The aim of the criminalisation of politics is obvious, to perpetuate suspicions about the activity of SYRIZA’s political opponents, and especially those who represent the centre-left.

The government has polarised the political system. It has attempted to divide society. It has manufactured enemies. It has sent messages of intolerance.

The decision to open the accounts was prompted by press reports regarding the testimony of Michel Josserand, a former executive at the Thales company, which had undertaken the modernisation Of Hellenic Navy frigates.