As Greece prepares to celebrate the bicentennial of the country’s independence next month, Greece is also poised to enter a new era in its economic development as a modern nation-state.
Greece’s modern history can be divided into several distinct periods. And in the long and often difficult road, Greece has trod over the last 200 years, there have been no shortage of setbacks: economic crises, sovereign defaults, and misguided development policies, combined with wars, poverty, famine, and emigration. And yet, each of those periods has given birth to a new and better Greece that succeeded it.
Greece is entering such a new era now.