On the beautiful Aegean island of Skiathos – the first in the Sporades archipelago – you might never gather that Greece was in deep crisis. Neither would you have the faintest notion that the country was in the grip of an historic general...
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Like rabbits caught in the beam of a headlight, we are all numbed by the turmoil of financial markets and the deepening crisis inside the Eurozone. We all nurse an uncomfortable sense of fear, unsure of what the threat to our livelihoods is likely to...
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Filed under: Uncategorized, Politics, IMF, Greece, "United States of Europe", Angela Merkel, Euro crisis, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Greek Drachma, International Monetary Fund, Silvio Berlusconi, The Drachma