Olive Oil and the Absurd

Greek Olive Oil imported back to Greece from Germany (eKathimerini report)

June Samaras alerted me to this item.

Update : On another aspect of  'the Absurd', there was an article by Costas Iordanidis in Kathimerini on 8 October 2011 ("No end in sight to the absurdity"), which concludes:


"The banking system in Europe and beyond was based on the assumption that state bonds are a safe investment, especially when these are issued by a eurozone member. Greece has defeated this certainty after violating every European Union rule for 30 years.
Greece failed to meet its membership obligations. Now these are being brutally imposed in a tiny time span under the threat of expulsion from the euro area. Greece’s political, economic and academic elite holds that Greeks are keen Europhiles. That was indeed the case as long as Greece got tons of European money. Now that society is sliding into poverty and depression, the European vision is starting to fade.
We should not be surprised if we were to see the birth of a movement advocating a return to the drachma. In that case, PASOK would go with the trend (and back to its roots). There is no end to the absurdity."