ABSTRACT
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A. The Political Parties Respond to Popular Discontent
After returning from Lisbon, Samaras participated on 18 February 1992 in an unusual meeting of the leaders of the Greek political parties that were repre sented in Parliament.1 This meeting was the first in a series of events that followed the momentous 14 February Thessaloniki demonstration that belong firmly to the realm of Greek domestic and partisan politics, and ultimately determined the country’s EPC foreign policy towards former Yugoslavia and FYROM.
