"The more laws a country has, the more corrupt it is," the Roman
historian Tacitus used to say. Greece has quite a few laws. So many, in
fact, that corruption can feel quite safe. An exclusive club of powerful
people engages in illegal practices, then pushes through necessary laws
to legalise these practices, granting itself an amnesty, and in the
end, there are no media to uncover what really happened.
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