Whenever the subject of “tidying up” the problem of illegal buildings arises, we confront some of the constituent elements of Greece’s troubles: haphazard legislation, the incompetence of control mechanisms, and society’s tolerance-complicity encourage the violation of laws, principles and common sense, as when people build in gullies prone to flash floods, in forests and on archaeological sites.

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