Kylie and Eva

I don’t know what’s sadder for Balkan Greece: Kylie’s ignominious downfall or the deep-seated sexism that seeks to tear Eve apart in her dizzying descent.

MEP – under investigation by the Belgian justice system for serious crimes, but his choices hurt many institutions and positions, while reflecting negatively on PASOK and its leadership and the image of Greece. Before she commits a crime.

He broke the glass ceiling.

I don’t know if she did it with the “sledgehammer” of her beauty or with her mind.

If she is ghost, brow, lucky or talented. Or if he has the whole collection. Rightly or wrongly it stirred up jealousy and controversy, leaving many angry men and women comrades in the party who thought that in reality, they had the upper hand in life either because they were men or because they lacked the weapon of beauty. .

On her way up, Kylie heard, sometimes face to face and sometimes behind her back, the voices and whispers of our Balkan sex.

Millions of women around the world hear and experience the same when they claim to be breaking glass ceilings in politics, business, media and elsewhere.

Either way is comfortable and useful and will certainly allow for an “armoury” of their character and values.

Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou’s representative, Socrates Tsinidis – calls him “Garder” in Parliament. Kylie had heard in person because she was part of Venizelos’ “army”. At that time, the noble Papandreou did not dare to “cut out” the tongues of the Sinites to defend a principle that the progressive PASOK should defend as the apple of its eye.

By the way, both Papandreou and Venizelos, the leaders of the party, left Kylie when they had to choose who to leave the parliament by choosing a seat.

Because he was young and conveniently quiet, as he said in a recent interview, the stubbornness he developed.

In no way am I suggesting that Ms. Kylie should be pitied as a victim of sexism. Neither is Eva.

I have no reason to defend the route, its options, or its evolution.

But if a tall dark-haired man with blue eyes had been arrested in his place for the same crime, it would never have occurred to the belated European cypresses to wonder how efficient and innocent the institutions in Belgium were. Pay attention to how beautiful Kylie looked.

Those who rabidly defend austerity and repeatedly publish foreign media reports mainly attacking the government should remember that in 2018 POLITICO Europe ranked PASOK MEPs among the leaders of the European Parliament leading the digital revolution. She was on the list of “Women Shaping Brussels”. Der Spiegel discovered her much earlier and gave her great credit.