The road from Rethymno to my village in the mountains of central Crete — which is nearly abandoned now that an easier route has opened — is a living organism with its history, its patchwork of new and old pieces, memories of small and great joys, tragedies, miracles, votive offerings, old detours taken over by the forest, with bridges, cliffs, landslides and endless turns.
A lot of people think we should just throw the Greeks overboard and let them stew in their own juices, but I disagree… Mindful of the enormous cultural legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us, wouldn’t it be a nice gesture if we all chipped in and wired a few bucks their way to help them out of a tight spot?
“Not a single constituency emerges well from this story. Greek politicians, Greek society, trade unions, leaders of the European Union, the I.M.F., the world’s investment banks — each and every one has scarcely put a foot right in a collective display of hubris, miscalculation, overambition, deception, mis-selling, folly and, in some [...]
“It has been clear for years,” writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post, “that you can’t have a single European currency but 16 different fiscal policies in the euro zone; this mismatch subverts the necessary process of economic adjustment for chronic debtors such as Greece. Yet the politicians of Europe [...]
Robert Samuelson writes in the Washington Post that “Europe may no longer be able to save itself. Too many countries have too much debt. Its economic growth — which helps countries service their debts — is too feeble. And nervous financial markets seem increasingly prone to dump the bonds of [...]
After struggling for months to find a job in Greece worthy of her qualifications, young programmer Ioanna Giannopoulou has decided to pack her bags and seek a better future in France, and a long-planned university reform that will be brought before parliament in August will come too late to keep the 23-year-old and thousands of other young graduates from abandoning their debt-stricken country.
The near-tragedy unfolding on the streets of Athens could be a comedy, if the possible consequences were not so dire. With Europe pushing austerity measures on Greece in exchange for another round of bailouts, writes William Antholis from Athens for CNN, the Greek public in the streets responds with chants: “We [...]
Greece has long held emotional sway over Europe. All the cradle-of-Western-civilization talk earned it leniency, even indulgence, writes Roger Cohen in the New York Times. But, he says, “the European Union was not ready to go mano-a-mano with the birthplace of democracy.” “Past glory is a wonderful thing” writes Cohen, [...]
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