Pantelis Kapsis For many years the managing director of the newspaper Ta Nea, Pantelis Kapsis, who now writes a regular column for the centre left daily To Vima, is considered to be one of Greece’s most influential journalists. Updated: 18 January 2017
With new austerity measures announced against a backdrop of persistent rumours of debt restructuring and national bankruptcy, a Greek columnist worries that the choices being offered to Greece are being accompanied by the degeneration of the state. 
After a year of austerity, George Papandreou’s government is still facing the risk of bankruptcy, sceptical financial markets and a dwindling sense of solidarity in other European countries. An editorialist expresses his concern over the upsurge in political anger among the Greek people.