Demonstrators hold balloons portraying Italian premier Matteo Renzi with a long nose as Pinocchio, during a protest in Rome, 12 Dec 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) By Barry Moody As the Greek crisis reached its worrying climax, nobody watched with more anxiety...
Greece’s debt woes bring back memories to Tiziana Barghini, who says this small country can teach us a lot. A woman sells bread next to posters reading ”NO to EU, IMF, ECB proposal” in Thessaloniki, 1 July 2015. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) Greece’s...
Greece is a long way from Indonesia of 1997, but the European nation could learn from Asia’s own crisis. Former International Monetary Fund Managing (IMF) Director Michel Camdessus looks on as then Indonesian President Suharto signs an IMF deal in Jakarta, 15...
By Alan Wheatley The odds that Greece will quit the euro zone have shortened after Sunday’s decisive referendum. Trust between Greece and Germany, the leader of Europe’s creditors, is shattered. But ‘Grexit’ is not inevitable. The long shadow of history will help...