It has been 5 years since the credit crunch that led to the global financial crisis, which eventually fed into the sovereign debt crisis across Europe, started. 5 years and 5 summers that policy makers and politicians have been struggling to contain one of the worst economic crises the world has seen. One can excuse [...]

As the sun rises over central Athens those that have engulfed the Parliament building ponder their situation. They have been driven here by disappointment, desperation, even anger and the stark realisation that this is truly as bad as it gets. Their disenchantment has made them think the unthinkable and all of the sudden While their [...]