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Europe on the breadline

Jon Henley travels through southern Europe to discover the impact of the financial crisis on the people of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece

21 October 2011

  • Greek parliament

    Europe on the breadline: Greeks and Italians blame culture of corruption

    In his final dispatch from breadline Europe, Jon Henley finds dark practices of nepotism, bribery and systemic low-level corruption are as much to blame for southern Europe's crisis as anything else

20 October 2011

  • Europe on the breadline: 'Chaos is a Greek word'

    Here are some of the responses of readers who have written to Jon Henley with insights into some of the problems Greece's citizens face amid the crisis
  • The port in Thessaloniki, Greece

    Europe on the breadline: Thessaloniki, where Greece no longer exists

    In Greece's second city Jon Henley finds resourceful inhabitants trying to fill the gaps left by the struggling state
  • Greece on the Breadline

    In Greece, 'corruption pervades every corner of life'

    Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the human stories behind the European debt crisis. Here Leonidas Pitsoulis describes Greek corruption

    Europe on the breadline: live tour – interactive

19 October 2011

  • Professor Spyros Gkelis of Thessaloniki University.

    Profile: Greek professor fears for education system

    University biology lecturer Spyros Gkelis says soaring costs and academic bills spell big trouble for those wanting to learn

  • George (l) and Thomas Douzis run their own packaging company.

    Profile: Greek entrepreneurs coping in the crisis

    Some like like the enterprising Douzis brothers are finding ways to adapt as the austerity measures bite

  • Greek protesters in Athens

    Europe on the breadline: 'I don't know how a default could be worse than this'

    Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the stories behind the European debt crisis. Here, an Athens resident gives her take on the Greeks' plight

    Europe on the breadline: live tour – interactive

18 October 2011

  • Naples view over the bay

    Europe on the breadline: Naples dinner party leaves a bitter taste

    Even comfortably-off Italians feel a need for wholesale systemic change - from politics to justice, tax to education

    • Europe on the breadline – live tour
  • Giancarlo Di Maio, Naples

    Europe on the breadline: hopelessness and Berlusconi

    Jon Henley is travelling in search of the human stories behind the European debt crisis. Here he meets a Naples bookshop owner who says the sense of despair can be traced to Berlusconi
  • Pietro Varriale

    Austerity in Italy: cuts compound bureaucratic obstacles

    Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the human stories behind the European debt crisis. Here he describes the impact Italy's austerity measures have had on non-profit organisations in Naples

    Europe on the breadline: live tour – interactive

17 October 2011

  • 15M demonstrators

    Europe on the breadline: readers' responses

  • Eating out in Rome

    Italy 'has been in decline since the 1980s'

16 October 2011

  • barletta explosion

    Europe on the breadline: why southern Italy missed out on the 'euro boom'

  • rubbish in naples

    Europe on the breadline: Naples, city of the hard luck story

  • Eating tapas at a bar in the old part of town San Sebastian Donostia Basque Country Spain

    The 'stoical Spanish soul' seems able to cope with hardship

  • 15M movement members

    Europe on the breadline: Spanish activists show how politics could be run

14 October 2011

  • Protest at the finance ministry in Lisbon

    Spain and Portugal: 'the worst will be next year. Then it will really hit'

  • People march during a protest in Lisbon

    Portuguese are 'working more for less money'

13 October 2011

  • Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer, Aviles, Asturias, Spain

    Europe on the breadline: readers' stories from Spain

  • Andalusia

    Andalucia now: 'People get all this training … then there's nothing'

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