The promise of an impossible success story

The Economist could not have come up with a more precise, subtly sarcastic and at the same time disparaging way to describe Greece's leftist-led government: "an amateurish bloc of ex-communists and elbow-patched professors elevated to power by desperate voters." 

The British magazine's in-depth coverage of the country's eight-year crisis, on the occasion of Greece's exit from its third bailout program on August 20, contains figures, thoughts and rather pessimistic forecasts. 

"There are indeed signs of recovery, led by strong tourist numbers on [the] islands… But the scars are everywhere," the Economist says, adding, "As Greeks know only too well, after the emigration of hundreds of thousands and a near-25 percent drop in GDP since 2008 - almost half as much again as war-torn Ukraine - no one can mistake their country for a success story." 

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