Striking Greeks lack sense of community

Greek farmers are continuing their road blockade into the second week to add pressure to their demands for financial support from the government. The conservative daily I Kathimerini has no time for this sort of protest: "This country gives the impression of not having the necessary cohesion to solve its problems, as if it had already lost the fight. Everywhere you look it's the same thing. First it was the dockworkers in Pireaus, today it's the farmers, tomorrow it'll be the tax collectors and so on. But how can it be that every demand from every group starts with mobilisation, barricades and strikes? ... Why are we willing to lunge at each other's throats at the drop of a hat? Perhaps this strange tolerance for extremes is a consequence of the many years of anti-social behaviour on all of our part - whether individuals or groups, citizens or civil servants."

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