Brush with bankruptcy was meant to end country’s culture of deceit, but malfeasance and mistrust remain widespreadThis summer, a lift at Athens’ largest public hospital broke down. When a repair technician arrived at the scene he couldn’t believe his eyes: knee-deep at the bottom of the shaft were hundreds of envelopes, the repository of bribes given to doctors who, pocketing the money, had then dispensed with the telltale fakellaki.“Corruption in Greece is alive and well,” said Aliki Mouriki, a sociologist at the National Centre for Social Research. “In fact, if anything, people are now so squeezed they have fewer inhibitions about taking bribes than before the crisis.” Continue reading...
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