Two Regimes of Recovery: Greece’s Exit from Macroeconomic Surveillance and the Social Findings That Do Not Close a File

Joanna Demopoulou* Photo credit: Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons * Joanna Demopoulou holds a PhD in International Affairs and is a former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Her research examines the legal and institutional architecture of public authority and governance, focusing on how law structures, distributes, and constrains public authority across European and international institutions. On live television in late September, Greece’s deputy foreign minister, Haris Theocharis, told a fellow panelist that his party represents “noikokyrides”, householders who manage their affairs responsibly, while opposition parties represent the “kakomoiris”, the unfortunate. He later called the phrase a mistake. The remark is domestic party rhetoric, not the language of any EU institution, and this post does not treat the Union as its author. It is a symptom of an institutional environment that makes it easy, more than a decade after Greece entered…