In December 2012 together with Daniel Sahl (board member of European Movement Germany) I travelled to Athens to explore how Greek civil society has coped with the global economic and financial crisis. Following several days of consultations with stakeholders from business and politics they published a report on their findings, with the deliberately provocative title „Greece without civil society: no good news for the future of the country„ The article received a wide range of reactions which provoked them to take another, and more thorough, look at the subject.