By Lysandros Lysandrou
During his first stint as prime minister (1955-1963) of Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907-1998) boasted in parliament that Greece was prospering. The then leader of the official opposition George Papandreou (1888-1968) aptly retorted: “The numbers indeed prosper, whereas the people suffer.”
This witty comment of Papandreou, the then grand old man of Greek politics, seems to be the case generally in all states and all times, and certainly
![Η Κύπρος βασικός στρατηγικός μας εταίρος στην άμυνα, λέει η Πρέσβης Γαλλίας στο ΚΥΠΕ [ΒΙΝΤΕΟ]](/images/raxo_thumbs/amp/tb-w300-h200-crop-ext-2b0ce0e9bd541cf56c463a0d3c8a5f58.jpg "Η Κύπρος βασικός στρατηγικός μας εταίρος στην άμυνα, λέει η Πρέσβης Γαλλίας στο ΚΥΠΕ [ΒΙΝΤΕΟ]")
