“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
“We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldLastsPoliticalHonestTenToughLogicCrisisDeterminedCampaignsBeing HonestGreekNecksSincere Author:Dora Bakoyannis
“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.” PeopleYearsFirstsLongHas BeensHelpingAcceptingSeaFirst TimeEuropeCrisisGreekIgnoredRefugeeOctoberCemeteryAccusationPleadingNobody CaresRefugee CrisisSpaniardsMediterranean Sea Author:Martin Schulz
“[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.” SaidDreamPoliticalLinesIssuesFocusFrontsCrimeMonthsKingsSpeechEuropeCrisisYeahUnionsAcceptedGreekIslandsTreatmentPrizePopeLutherEuropean UnionMigrantsOutspokenPolitical IssuesPrestigiousScolded Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“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 want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.” PeopleWorldWantCompassionEuropeCrisisSafetyResponseExtraordinarySeekingHumanitarianGreekIslandsAdmirationRefugeeMigrants Author:Barack Obama
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryHelpingLastsPoliticalUnitedExampleTrumpLateEuropeElectionCrisisInternationalKingdomsAround The WorldUncertaintyOperationsGreekDramaticFundRescueLast TimeMonetaryGreat DepressionUnited KingdomImf Author:Nicholas Bloom
“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
“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.” WayTryingChildrenWarPoliticalSidesGoneRichComedyCrazyMembersTragedyOur ChildrenCrisisHorribleGreekOur FamilyYour ChildrenFull LifeGreek TragedyTragedy And ComedyGone CrazyHorrible Experience Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“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
“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.” CrisisBlameResponseInvestingFinancialGreekFinancial CrisisSpeculators Author:Lawrence Summers
“I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.” PeopleThinkingImportantProblemPoliticalForceLinesUnitedEffortOvercomingCrisisDebtGreekAddressesCompetitiveness Author:Lucas Papademos