· With the temperature still standing at 30 degrees, there was only one sign to prove without doubt that autumn has arrived in Greece: the annual Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
· Going strong for 82 years now, nobody really knows what purpose it serves.
· In its 82 years of history, the Fair is known mainly for one thing: being the birthplace of frappé coffee.
· An eternal proof of Greek ingenuity, frappé was invented by necessity, when Dimitris Vakondios, an employee of the company importing Nestle products in Greece tried to make his fix of instant coffee, while at the company’s stall at the Trade Fair.
· Having neither hot water nor a spoon at hand, he used cold water and a shaker, and the rest, as they say, is history.

· Glorious, Greek History.
· Other than that, one can be forgiven to believe that all this promise of innovation and cutting edge entrepreneurship is just an elaborate setting for the annual war or words between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.
· And this time round, they both delivered.
· Promising to ease the pain inflicted upon the lowest incomes, albeit in the long term, Alexis Tsipras failed to offer any tangible evidence of growth, but he did make a gift to lexicographers, introducing a new word to enter the crisis jargon.
· Grivnestment.
· It’s what happens when investors come to Greece.
· Yes, it’s cringe-worthy. But so is having to deal with the legal and tax system in the country, as an entrepreneur of any size.

· Grinvestment is supposedly the word to replace Grexit, i.e. the expulsion of Greece from the EU (for any of you who might have spent the last five years in a remote island, oblivious to what has happened in the country).
· Not surprisingly, the word has not exactly caught up.
· But things like that don’t happen overnight.
· It’s a bit like evolution. It takes time.
· It took millions to go from the Australopithecus to the Homo Sapiens.
· Which may seem like a step forward, but it might be a regression, from a simple, and pretty much egalitarian society, to … well, the mess we’re in.

· Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the Opposition, insinuated it, admitting that, equality is not really a natural condition.
· And this was his contribution to the public discourse, last week, from the Thessaloniki Trade Fair.
· A Darwinian-Libertarian approach to the human condition, dismissing the notion that inequality is, in fact, nothing to fight against, but something to accept and move on.
· Not that it matters.
· For one, because his aphorism was taken out of context – as it always happens – and blown out of proportion.
· But mainly, because, nobody pays any attention to whatever these people say.
· They’re just part of the theatrics of the Greek political scene.
· In fact, Mitsotakis was rewarded for (whatever was) what he said.
· The subsequent polls saw him outperforming the PM by an almost 20 per cent margin (i.e. 43 to 26 per cent).
· And being considered best-suited for PM by the 35 per cent of the people.
· Which means that he might as well start creating new words of his own.