Our loss of sovereignty a long time coming

IT’S been a year now since our economic sovereignty went west.

How’s it been for you? Do you think things would be any different if the state had managed to keep the troika at bay?

This time last year, there was much gnashing of teeth. On November 28, the final details of the loan agreement with the IMF/ECB/EU was announced, but the whole affair had been hanging over the country like a nuclear ash cloud for the preceding ten days.