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Greeks vote in high-stakes local elections (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Disgruntled Greeks went to the polls in local elections on Sunday that could trigger a national vote if they fail to give the government support for austerity plans…

Greeks vote in high-stake local elections (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Reuters - Local polls in Greece Sunday could trigger national elections in one of Europe’s most economically troubled countries if they fail to give Prime Minister George Papandreou support for…

Greeks feeling pain from austerity measures (AP)

August 20th, 2010

For rent signs are displayed at the entrance of a building in central Athens, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The pain from the harshest austerity package debt-ridden Greece has seen in decades has kicked in with a vengeance. Unemployment is up. Shops, caught between higher taxes and consumers' rapidly diminishing purchasing power, are closing. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - The plan to rescue Greece from bankruptcy has kicked in, and with a vengeance. As the government slashes spending and hikes taxes, the deficit is way down —…

Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Demonstrators protest against the new economic measures during a rally in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Greek Government has outlined harsh spending cuts and tax increases necessary to free up billions of euros in a joint International Monetary Fund and eurozone rescue for the debt-ridden country. Finance ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro agreed Sunday to rescue Greece with 110 billion Euros in loans over three years to keep it from defaulting on its debts.(AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - A pony-tailed Greek on a motorcycle pulled up onto the sidewalk, hunting for a better parking spot, and an elderly tourist with a crutch shuffled out of the…

International Philosophy

March 20th, 2010

Monty Python’s classic skit of the Greeks vs. the Germans

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