by Alexandros Papadopoulos

In late January 2012, a small furore erupted in the Greek media world when in a televised interview, Michalis Chrisochoidis – at that time Minister of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping –admitted that he had never read the memorandum, that is the terms of the bail-out package agreed between Papandreou Government and the Troika (the tripartite management committee of the Greek Debt Crisis made out of representatives from the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission). The minister’s statement caused a cascade of reactions in social media. On Twitter mockery alternated with outrage: ‘You are shameless, you should put a noose around your neck. You have destroyed all Greece with your signature’. ‘I haven’t read the memorandum but I have seen the movie’. ‘I didn’t read the memorandum because the mail attachment wouldn’t open’.