The situation in Greece was likened in the Financial Times to someone being held in a Victorian debtors’ prison and detained until they paid their debts, with no way of earning enough to do so. The Greek public has finally rebelled against this unkind fate, and this week voted in a Government that is committed to finding a way out. The ex-Marxist but now largely neo-Keynesian Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has offered to renegotiate the current “rescue package” with the agencies that created it, the so-called troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. He says Greece will honour its debts, and does not want to leave the eurozone. He is right that the suffering of the Greek people has gone on far too long, with unemp
29 January 2015, The Tablet
Europe must show solidarity with Greece
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