My many conversations with Corfiots over the last year, and particularly during the recent election campaigning, lends me to believe, firmly, that a return to the drachma is impossible to achieve, even were it realistically sought.
A life-long history of Greek drama shows how expert our hosts are where the art of defending their lands, and peoples, against any foreign aggression, whether with arms, or financial constraints, or backdoor designs on acquiring Greek islands with subterfuge, are concerned.
Have no fear. Greece will remain in the European Community, the Eurozone, and the leading European power will have to accept that the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, have no choice but to underpin the Greek economy, or face the inevitable collapse of the Eurozone, and its“unachievable dreams of a "New United States Of Europe" with no borders, unified job market, and, economic and legal standardisation.
The European Community may, just may, have been manageable with the earlier twelve countries involved. Now, with so many new "poor" East-European country members involved, "Topsy" has become "Topsy Turvy"!
Anything that grows too quickly, and without pruning, eventually collapses.
Then the "tree" is cut back and flourishes anew.
Roll on the next version of the "Euro", with a two-tier system of "A" stream countries, and the also-rans.