Blues méditerranéen – La crise économique grecque empire, comme la vie des Grecs ordinaires

The Mediterranean blues - Greece’s economic crisis is worsening—as is life for ordinary Greeks

[The Economist]

THE news from Greece gets ever grimmer. GDP will shrink in 2012 for the fourth year in a row. Talk of a default and/or departure from the euro is growing.
This week Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, demanded urgent progress towards a deal imposing a “haircut” on private creditors (which may now have to be bigger than 50%), saying that Greece might otherwise not get its second European Union/IMF loan. And thieves have just stolen a Picasso painting from the national gallery, where only one guard was on duty.
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