A dark police drama of the relationship between Greece and Europe: a poisoned atmosphere, countless human destruction, a thriller with breathless suspense, death lurks everywhere, victims of unjust poverty commit suicide, as do the perpetrators of unjust enrichment, a burdened past implicates the present, a destroyed present mortgaged to the future.

For today's shipwreck, all are guilty, each to the extent that they are responsible: the powerful are victims of their own power, the weak are victims of their own weakness. 57 years after the establishment of the European Union, 32 years after our full accession to it, and 11 years after joining the common currency, decisive economic, social, geopolitical, anthropological, and cultural incompatibilities remain between the two sides.

Multiple quantitative and qualitative gaps between our country and Europe. A relationship that is 'incompatible', 'inappropriate', 'unproductive'. The same is true for all southern European countries, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and even between Germany and France.

Yet in history, great geopolitical unions, from the Roman Empire to the British and American, have not been unions among equals, but among different and divergent entities. The power of the strong arises from providing security and stability to the weak.

History teaches us that, under certain conditions, the incompatible, inappropriate, unproductive relationship can become compatible and fruitful. Strength is never about purity, but about complexity and intricacy.

In the European management of the Greek crisis today, the sustainability of not only our country is at stake, but also that of Europe’s mismatched. In this book, Kostas Vergopoulos identifies the causes of the current Greek and European shipwreck and documents the prerequisites for disengagement from it.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]