A Greek Tragedy Portends Greek Drama for Political Stage in Cradle of Democracy

Greece’s state apparatus faces doubts on capacity to respond to crises.

AP/Vaggelis Kousioras
A man walks into floodwaters to deliver medicines to a relative after the country's record rainstorm, at the town of Palamas, central Greece, September 8, 2023. AP/Vaggelis Kousioras

ATHENS — Greece’s turbulent summer journey, scarred by wildfires and floods on a biblical scale with only a brief interval in between, came to a hard fall’s landing with a maritime tragedy that shocked the country and is likely to generate political fallout for months to come. 

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