Greece’s crisis, a modern myth
At first sight, it all looks business as usual - Athenian terraces are packed by day and its lounge bars are heaving by night. But members of the European media should get themselves to Athens. The devil is in the detail: you only see that when you’re forced to get off the metro mid-way through a journey because of a spontaneous strike, or when you see anarchist graffiti all over the walls of the district of Exarchia. When five cafebabel.com journalists headed to the Greek capital on an editorial mission in early July, they discovered that the blown-up version of the crisis is as mythical as the Trojan war. Read our perception of the symptoms of the crisis, which are also its remedies: Greek-German tensions, a generation of well-qualified but underpaid graduates in images, as well as the development of the country’s solar energy sector and the successful integration of an Albanian community. Final special edition of cafebabel.com’s ‘Eucrisis on the ground’ city series
Greece crisis: profiling rich, scot-free yacht-owners
The economic flavour of the Greek crisis tastes different for those on top - the shipowners, the yachting association bosses - than the diet prescribed for the masses. In Athens though, the latter rage against the state rather than the privileged classes. Lucky richies
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Athens in video: German cliches on the Greeks
A Berlin-based Italian video journalist heads to the Greek capital to film social reality under the stranglehold of the crisis. A series of opinions range from Germano-Greek tensions to the weakness of the Greek state, as well as ideas for future solutions. Watch the ten-minute video in two parts (in English with French subtitles)
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Crisis viewed by Albanians in Athens
Is crisis old news for members of the largest, best-integrated minority in the Greek capital? Some feel the Greeks are experiencing the same woes that they went through six years ago
eucrisis on the ground, youth, politics, economical crisis, society
Can renewable energy save Greece?
99% of private buildings in this Mediterranean country use solar energy for hot water and currently only Cyprus’ utilisation is higher. More uses for this renewable energy are eminently possible, if only policy makers would cooperate
eucrisis on the ground, athens, economy, energy, ecology, economical crisis, society
