Founder’s Perspective

This week’s developments highlight a growing disconnect between macroeconomic resilience and the lived reality of households, as external instability increasingly feeds into domestic political pressure.

Greece is entering a period where external shocks and domestic structural pressures are increasingly intersecting, creating a more complex and less predictable policy environment.

This week brought into focus a deeper structural layer of the Greek political system, as the country’s decline in the latest V-Dem Democracy Index highlighted persistent weaknesses in institutional checks and balances.

This week’s developments illustrated how rapidly geopolitical tension in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East is becoming in relation with Greece’s domestic political landscape.