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Greece in crisis

With Greece in financial meltdown and the country rocked by protests we offer a beginner's guide to the crisis. View readers' photos showing how day-to-day life in Greece is affected by the financial meltdown in our Flickr group, and add your own

5 August 2011

  • Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos

    Greece's finance minister: 'We will make a superhuman effort'

    Evangelos Venizelos introduced austerity measures to tackle the Greek debt crisis – now he pledges a crackdown on tax evasion
  • accident and emergency ward at a hospital in Athens

    Greece's healthcare system is on the brink of catastrophe

    Patients who cannot afford to pay for treatment and hospitals without critical supplies are among victims of the financial meltdown

    • What can the Ancient Greeks do for us?

    • Greek austerity measures' unlikely opponent: an old roommate of the PM

    • You tell us: is Greek tourism riding out the crisis?

4 August 2011

  • A shipbuilder smokes a cigarette while others work on a ship

    Greek shipyards kept afloat by luxury yachts for the super-rich

    Toys for the wealthy now the main source of work at yards which once employed thousands building ferries and cargo ships
  • greece-crisis-retail

    Athens is plastered with one message: enoikiazetai. To let

    Shops, offices and factories close as Greek landlords 'refuse to drop commercial rents to prices that people can afford'

    • What can the Ancient Greeks do for us?

    • Greek tourism hit by recession but still seen as recovery hope

    • Readers react: living through the Greek financial crisis

3 August 2011

  • Athens riots

    Athens mayor tells of crime and violence in Europe's oldest city

  • The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David

    What can the Ancient Greeks teach us?

  • Peter Papadopoulos, an unemployed chef who became homeless last August

    Greek rise in homelessness creates a new poor

  • Taxi drivers protest in Athens

    Greece in Crisis - in pictures

  • Greek debt activists move to a hip-hop soundtrack

  • Young, educated Greeks angry at being locked out of their lives

2 August 2011

  • Manolis Glezos

    Greek protester who resisted Nazi rule turns fire on EU

  • Greek family Themis and Maria Protopsaltou

    Greeks fall back on family ties amid debt crisis

  • Ancient Roman fresco painting of The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

    What can the Ancient Greeks teach us?

  • Angel Gurría Brussels OECD

    Greek austerity plan will work, says OECD

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