Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Greece, Between a Rock and a Hard Place

That's the message on all Greek TV channels tonight, and through the night. Trying to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis, or the Symplegades, the clashing rocks..
And from Northern Europe? Exasperation with broken promises.
Samaras, after negotiations have been completed: "On second thoughts, can we keep our pensions, please?":
Understandable; too much pain. I would feel the same.

"We want to ease the people's suffering" (and win the election?)

BBC update

Kathimerini

Telegraph

"Deadlock", Press Association

Kathimerini in Greek

A view from Corfu, Peter Papageorgiou (in Greek)

FEEDBACK SOUGHT

The only relief in a long night? Hearing Marika Ninou singing "Palamakia, Palamakia" (circa 1950). That's the real Greece!

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