With the next round of national elections coming up Sunday, Greek voters are casting around for a new champion to defend them against European bankers following the left-wing Syriza coalition’s abrupt concessions last spring.
But the Greeks have been without an effective champion for far longer than most people realize. Many critics trace what Greece is going through today — debt crisis, infighting, panic, economic devastation and above all the manipulation of the nation’s fate by larger European powers — to the start of the eurozone a decade and a half ago.
In fact these problems go back nearly two centuries to …read more
Source: European Voice
