In Athens
She is arguably the most astonishing victim of the Covid-19 in Greece. She died instantly, from the first containment measures, to the surprise of specialists and other technocrats who have worked on this file for decades. She is bureaucracy. The Greek scourge par excellence, springboard of all the excesses of the economy and nepotism, so rooted in local mores. A sprawling hydra that delays the country's progress on all fronts, from university registrations, hiring in the public sector, to the simple birth certificate.
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The numbers speak for themselves. For several years, Greece has held the penultimate place of European countries in terms of digital transition (26 of 27). For Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Minister responsible for Digital, this situation became shameful and untenable: " The cost of bureaucracy represented 6.8% of Greek GDP in 2006, the largest percentage of OECD countries ", he notes. .
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