"It is shocking that the citizens are watching the government's great Waterloo in the issue of the National Aviation and Railway Accidents and Transportation Safety Investigation Agency (HARSIA)," underlined main opposition PASOK-Movement for Change press spokesperson Kostas Tsoukalas, while speaking to the public broadcaster ERT on Monday.

He recalled that State Minister Akis Skertsos, one day after the announcement of the findings, "had said that the official position of the New Democracy government was that this constitutes a Bible of National Self-Awareness and a collective conquest." 

"And now," he commented, "we are watching the president of HARSIA, who of course has changed his mind 70 times in the last month, come and acknowledge that there was an unprecedented fiasco."

He argued that PASOK's positions have been shown to be entirely justified and that "in order to have a full investigation of the case, the Constitution should have been followed to the letter, which provided that the Parliamentary Preliminary Investigation Committee should also conduct an investigation. The government chose to bury this."

Regarding Trump's tariff policy, he stressed that there is a great risk that it will essentially prove to be a self-inflicted economic disaster. "Obviously it will also affect our country, if not so much directly, as we are not heavily exposed to the American market, certainly indirectly." He stressed that the country must therefore quickly expand its production base, reform the state, and move to value-added markets in order to be able to support small and medium-sized businesses and wages. "Because the inflation that will come as a result of the tariff policy - especially in our country where we have very low real wages - can destroy society."