Greek Economy and the Euro – An excerpt from ΝΕWSΝlGΗΤ, featuring Greek journalist Matina Stevis. All rights belong to their respective owners. Broadcaster’s programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014s7ml From the Youtube channel of  hellenicpress

Thursday, June 9, 2011 Hürriyet Daily News  This file photo shows Turkish President Abdullah Gül speaking at a previous event. ‘Greece is about to go bankrupt,’ the president told minibus drivers in Istanbul on June 8, 2011. AA photo         Greece could soon go bankrupt due to the crushing interest payments it is being forced to pay as […]

As Athens pushes for economic and budgetary change, skeptics should suspend their disbelief. Image @ mnec.gr By GEORGE PAPACONSTANTINOU There has been no shortage of metaphors these past few weeks to describe Greece’s fiscal and economic problems—commentators have invoked everything from the Labors of Hercules to the Myth of Sisyphus and have even described Greece as Iceland on the Aegean. […]

The future of Greece By Evaggelos Vallianatos Economy and society With the sole exception of shipping where Greece owns the largest merchant fleet in the world, Greece has pretty much stayed out of industrial development, manufacturing nearly nothing and exporting very little outside of students, emigrants, olive oil and cheese. Growing up in Greece in the 1950s and 1960s, I […]