"The Greek crisis is a European crisis, it is a lack of vision, it is a lack of common sense and a lack of democratic institutions", stressed, during a debate on the rise in inequality since the 1980s, the economist Luca Sancel. He has just come fromFranceofYellow Vests in Athens and gazes at the Parthenon, in the wake of the rally against the passing of the Prespa Agreement.

Your research at WIL, in the first report of Global Inequalities 2018, which was published in December 2017, reveals that among the countries with the highest inequalities of’ the 80s until today, it's the US, while inequalities were more controlled overall in the EU. Why;

There is the argument that accepts inequalities as a result of technologies. You want a smartphone and an iPhone; There is a price to be paid. However, both the US and Europe are exposed to new technologies and free trade. Therefore, if these two factors were responsible for inequality, we would have to measure the same percentages in the USA and in the EU countries.

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Luca Sancel: Lack of vision and democracy led to the Greek crisis