World premiere: Greece legalises bribery. Henceforth, kick-backs R OK, corruption is dead, everyone is happy!

The Greek parliament voted yesterday in favour of a text, hidden within a bill, which effectively legalises "presents given in appreciation of (services rendered)".


Greek MPs, in a show of solidarity to their most staunch supporters and loyal alleged clients, the civil servants, voted with overwhelming majority to put an end to investigations in alleged corruption -- simply by legalising kick-backs.

In doing so, Greece has now eradicated corruption in one easy move: by legalising the means to corruption, corruption is no more. All those reading news about Greece have been made painfully aware of how fast  appreciation escalates, from a bunch of rare bonzai to a padded bank account in eastern Switzerland.


The good news is, now that it is legal, the "fee" should go down.

The bad thing is that in any dealings with Greek administration will require that which in other countries still, but in Greece no longer, is called, a "bribe".