The Men and Women of Ruins

... foremost for Greece and the Greek people, but also for ourselves and European integration. [...] Keeping Greece in the euro[zone] and therefore in the heart of Europe and the EU is [...] of the utmost geostrategic and geopolitical importance.” France was first, even ahead of Greece, to ratify the agreements reached at the Brussels summit, by an overwhelming majority. What is the root of this call for solidarity in France – which has always loved to give orders and hated to pay – and of its sympathy for Greece,...