Greece, getting smaller

"Instead of 'Little Greece' we need a serious Greece," former Prime Minister Costas Simitis told the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday.

As he spoke, Athens was suffocating again because of a mass transit strike, "unknown persons" were destroying ticket validating machines on buses, Eurostat's figures showed that Greece is the consistent champion in unemployment, at 23 percent (with the next country, Spain, at 18.2 percent and the eurozone average at 9.6 percent), while a report from the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) named Greece the leader in the percentage rise of poverty.

The talks between the Greek government and its creditors show more differences than convergence, while Politico reported that the government has asked the World Bank for technical and financial assistance…

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