“As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsLongCountryEnoughCrisisSavingGreekAgendasGreece Author:George Papandreou
“Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.” PoliticalCrisisGreekLots Of MoneyImmoralHousingGreece Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.” CrisisIrelandGreeceEuroPortugal Author:Nigel Farage
“The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.” WayCountryLeftPoliticianCrisisWoundsUniformsNaziShockedGreeceBannerAthensDeep Wounds Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.” PeopleWayTodayJobsPoliticalSufferingCoursesMillionsTomorrowDespairCrisisRight WayGreecePolitical Systems Author:Dora Bakoyannis
“The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern Europe, Poland might just as well be affected. In this case we are dealing with mechanisms that we do not control. We need to change that.” IfsNeedsWellsMightCasesEuropeCrisisAffectedMechanismRoutesRefugeeEasternGreeceNeed A ChangePolandEastern EuropeBalkans Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.” PeopleMadeProblemDealsEconomyEconomicConsequenceProgramCrisisGreekGreeceAusterityEconomic Crisis Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.” ThinkingHas BeensRealFactsCareTakenHappenedOfficeCommitmentEuropeTragedyCrisisGreekCombatRecallsSavagesBureaucracyCould Have BeenGreeceSavageryReferendumsBrussels Author:Noam Chomsky
“Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.” WorldReasonEconomicCrisisSyriaRefugeeGreece Author:Dakis Joannou
“Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers at all. So filmmakers had to help each other, and make very, very low-budget films. Now with the crisis, things got a bit worse, but filmmakers are still going to be making films. It didn't change that much.” HelpingFilmEconomicCrisisFilmmakerGreeceHelping Each Other Author:Yorgos Lanthimos
“Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.” IfsWellsHappensValuesPayEffectsEuropeCrisisWesternDebtGreekBankingGreeceBanking SystemWestern EuropeBanking Crisis Author:John Major