non-dramatic process, to gain full economic and political independence. But first, we shall all hold our breath. On Monday the first of October our invisibility shall, for a couple of hours, be suspended. [...] single fact we were able to preserve our language, which is, incidentally, like Icelandic a direct descendant of the language of the Vikings. In possession of a language, a history and a cultural identity [...] heritage, the Greek ideals, the Hellenic cradle of democracy. Viewed in this perspective Europe is not first and foremost a finite administrative or economic entity, but a spacious cultural and spiritual domain