“The reforms are the peaceful revolutions “stressed the Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakisin the context of the internet discussion in the first presentation of the book of diANEOsis “10 Reforms That Changed Greece”, which was released a few weeks ago, pointing out that the main way to achieve big changes, are reforms like the ones you encounter in this book “.
In particular, he pointed out that “the general concept here is how one can see History lessons, specific lessons from one’s own field, from one’s own history and draw the right lessons.” Referring to the book, he stressed that it is a great contribution, because it “breaks down some myths in relation to how we interact and discuss daily issues related to reforms.”
He even underlined that “such a myth is that the Hellas is a non-reformable country“that the political system is intolerant of reforms.” As the minister noted, “Greece is a deeply reformable country when there are a number of conditions such as the political will, the people in the field who can implement these great changes and of course these changes are a social demand.” Referring to the digital transformation of the country, he characteristically said that “both gov.gr and the digital reform of the State in general, was a social request. “All we had to do was use digital media to respond to this social demand,” he said. on the other hand, to adapt them to our national context “. As Mr. Pierrakakis pointed out, “the most important of all is the message that Greece is a reformable country, from ‘it is not possible’ you can easily erase the ‘no'”.
In closing, he stressed that “you must have a plan in order to be able to draw the maximum in the current situation”.
As the content director of diANEOsis – and editor of the book – Thodoris Georgakopoulos pointed out, “we tried to look at the last 200 years historically, to analyze, to understand the mechanism by which reforms are carried out in the country. We have selected ten important reforms and asked ten people to write their political history and their importance for how they changed people’s lives, but also for how they passed. “
One of the ten authors of the book, o Evanthis Hadjivassiliou, professor at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Athens, and general secretary of the Parliamentary Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, referred to the reform of rural clinics and in particular to the medical care of farmers. “It is one of the small actions with huge results in the social body, as we are essentially talking about the entry of modern medicine into the rural world, the inclusion of the entire rural population in an inclusive health care regime and the establishment of rural clinics that they bring modern medicine to this huge part of the social body, which until then had been forced to follow traditional practices “. He added that “when we go from 400 to 1500, we realize that this offer of medicine is now generalized. It is a step in the right direction. “For a reform to be successful, it must be part of a broader context and it must create a momentum for something more.”
For her part, the second author Kalliopi Spanou, professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens and member of the Advisory Board of diANEOsis, stressed the great importance of the role of ASEP. “It is an institution that has been greatly embraced,” he said, although in the beginning, “no one thought it would work, there was suspicion of such an institution. Gradually, the trust shown by the society gave him the strength to stand, to organize this space with any shortcomings, to defend this role and, above all, to convince that he is doing seriously what he has been assigned “.
For its part, the Maria Efthimiou, A professor at the Department of History and Archeology at the University of Athens spoke about the political changes, saying that the reforms and changes “went through a long incubation period, and many complex micropolitical stories around them”. Ms. Efthymiou commented that “the Greek political intervention of the average Greek is negative, that is, to be decent citizens, we say no to everything. And while we say no and criticize the politician and think that he has something terrible in mind when he wants to do some things, at the same time we are not so lazy not to listen to the other point of view. We just want to insist on no and process some aspects of things within ourselves. “Society becomes more prepared through complex processes that have many setbacks and ultimately take a long time.”
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