Same-sex marriage dominates public debate  

Dear reader,

This is our weekly round-up from Greece.

The country is facing an unprecedented -in its recent history- cost of living crisis. A report verified some of the conclusions we had empirically come down to that the ratio between the cost of basic goods and the average wage is by far the worst in Europe.

Another critical report verified something we had long suspected: that the reason for the skyrocketing basic goods prices is corporate greed: in 2022, the profits in Greece for all industries increased by 110.8%, profits that surpass (by far) inflation and all other indicators of consumer prices.” 

Same-sex marriage seems to have monopolized the public debate in Greece these last weeks (OK, along with Lanthimos’s recently released and award-winning movie Poor Things). That is because the government plans to bring a bill to legalize it. The PM, apparently moving in the right direction this time, is facing strong opposition from several of his party MPs and from the most influential and indeed quite invincible in its political battles institution in Greece: the Orthodox Church.