Greece is historically experiencing the completion of its long post-revolutionary period. Such a historical phase of the end of an era has been activated by the dynamic processes of a barrage of multi-layered explosions with systemically different origins. Together, however, all of them were accompanied by the long-term effects of the deep socio-economic crisis resulting in the de facto bankruptcy of its heavily indebted economy.

The systemic and initially economic crisis caused severe fractures in the productive and income structures of the country, as well as in the joints of their diffusion. At the same time, however, the transformations that arose constituted a turning point in the prospects of the factual reality of the territory through the pursued policy of internal devaluation and impoverishment by draconian measures of prolonged austerity.

Ultimately, the living standards of the population are regressing, returning to where they were three decades ago, especially for the poorer and middle groups in the income stratification of the country and with intense phenomena of structural inequalities. These trends are further strengthened by the strategically altered targeting in the old continent from the inspired and multi-layered focus of the European Union towards a more restrictive, German-origin and purely ethnocentric interests, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

From their side, the structurally long-term developmental delays in Greece and the challenges of overcoming them focus on the distorting conditions of six strategic factors:

• The presence of a clientelist state in the distribution of public powers for the benefit of selected and state-dependent interests, both domestic and from the external sector.
• The weak and shallow productive interconnections within the structures of the domestic real economy, resulting in massive imports in every essential developmental and/or growth initiative.
• The extensively obstructive bureaucratic functioning in the decision-making and implementation of key decisions.
• The establishment of flexible labor relations and institutions shaping undervalued labor.
• The particularly limited investments in research and development, as well as in the utilization and fairer diffusion and application of innovative creative knowledge.
• The transformation of the welfare state into a residual and highly restrictive neoliberal safety net aimed at calming social tensions through the institutionalization of provisions for managing extreme poverty.