A trade fair of limited political scope

member the unveiling of SYRIZA’s infamous economic program, which largely contributed to the party’s efforts to rise to power (through the elections, truth be told), at the fair. Secondly, since then, the government has lost a large portion of its credibility and, thirdly, the prime minister has very little ammunition in his arsenal in terms of making announcements and promises. Tsipras’s signing of the so-called third bailout, all which preceded that agreement and, even more so, all that followed, have contributed decisively to the common belief that the ability of the Greek government to follow its own policies in crisisstricken Greece is limited, if not nonexistent. The figures are out there, the targets cannot change and, generally speaking, there is only one reality. It is up to each government to select its own path in order to reach these targets and, in this case, the current administration has made its own decisions. These include over-taxation and putting the burden on the middle class, avoiding any kind of reform in the public sector while safeguarding its staff, the development of its own version of a state-centralized regime borrowing elements from Hugo Chavez and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as Marxist practices, double-talk regarding investment and a sense of an overall downward leveling. From this point of view, therefore, the prime minister does not have a wide range of declarations