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                                    Athens, 7 March 2017
The summit of the four major economies of the European Union of 27 in Versailles, on March 5, 2017, is expected to be a milestone in its new path towards the unknown.
What was so many times "responsibly" denied - even very recently - by top European leaders was served up in a French "diplomatic" dialect by the president of France, who is about to leave the international political scene: "Unity does not mean uniformity," the host of the summit, François Hollande, informed us.
Of course, the ordinary European citizen will be left wondering what happened to that "common European home", what they meant for so many decades by "community solidarity", what was ultimately the "European vision" of the "great European family", whose members the powerful rulers who methodically built their castles using the small peripheral countries as water carriers wanted to make of all the small countries, from the Baltics to the Balkans. The buckets in the periphery were emptying, the reservoir in Germany was filling up. Current account deficits in the peripheral economies, a current account surplus in Germany. Everyone in Europe was dancing (and continues to dance until recently) to the rhythm of Germany.
The reason that prompted Germany to rally, directly exploiting the "useful idiots", in this case the trio of Versailles friends, France, Italy and Spain, is the aggressive national economic policy of the new US president, whose slogan is: "America First".
With this move, Germany took a clear defensive position against the protectionist economic policy that is destructive to German interests, which the new US president seeks to develop. Without hesitation and with the speed of a determined and experienced businessman, the new American leader made it clear that he will not tolerate the German policy to date, which has transformed the European Union into a tool that strengthens Germany's economic arsenal to the detriment of American interests on the global chessboard.
As popular wisdom says, when buffaloes quarrel, frogs pay, or in the case of chess players, in order to maintain its strength, Germany sacrifices pawns in its attempt to gain a flexibility that the now Soviet-style cumbersome mechanism of Brussels bureaucrats lacks.
From the Greek side, the developments that surprised some people unable to understand what is happening around them, highlight the urgent need for initiatives for alternative solutions, in order to prevent the ship "Hellas" from sinking. The storm finds us with the worst political personnel that has governed Greece for at least the last 100 years. In any case, the lifeboats must be ready.
It is hoped that the rulers have realized that the most immediate threat to Greece concerns the monetary aspect of the Greek economic drama because we do not know when the Versailles Four will make their next - certainly rapid - moves, but it is certain that their priorities concern the eurozone.
Greece, however, has alternative solutions, both in the monetary-economic and geopolitical aspects. The US-UK alliance represents a more suitable alternative for Greece, both in terms of monetary-economic and security issues, compared to what a possible dissolution of the European Union is expected to leave behind.
It is certainly in Greece's best interest to make its decisions now before it finds itself unclaimed among the debris that is estimated to soon be left behind by the collapse of the much-hyped but failed European Union.