Most of protests are Staged and very well Orchestrated, they pretend fighting but do not hurt each other. This is worth it to get hundreds of billions from EU. Greeks are very smart; the deception started with the Trojan Horse and is going on with very well orchestrated “PROTESTS”. If you want Greece to be paid off, for the Enormous Army, Universal Free Health Care, Lucrative Pensions, and Taxes that they never Pay, then you pay them by yourself, PAY THEM OFF, BY YOUR OWN POCKET.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/greece_isnt_europes_only_problem_20100330/

Calling a people “Parasites,” as you did the Greeks, Nazionista,has nothing to do with “objective criticism” and everything to do with ignorant racism. If you can regain your composure, you will see that the stats Showing that Greeks work longer hours than the Irish and the Germans are the EU’s, not Greece’s and are determined by Commission technical assessment. Greece has been a parliamentary democracy since the 1830s, longer than some “orderly” northern European nations and much longer than the other countries in her unstable neighbourhood. All you offer is invective and the “fact” that you “know Greece very well,” The view from Skopje, with venom sapping the brain, can be very distorting, but always knee-jerk, predictable, and irrelevant.

The following link charts working time in EU states. Compare Greece with Ireland and Germany:

http://www.euractiv.com/en/socialeurope/europeans-industrious-reputation/article-157639

Ant. said: “There’s a politically
incorrect reason for that - Greek culture/society is
not known for it’s hard work,”

In fact, EU statistics show that Greeks work longer hours than Germans and longer than workers of practically every other EU state. The problem in Greece is efficiency, not effort. Many people hold down two jobs.

The tremendous progress made by Greece from membership of the EU is confirmed by statistics and verified by observation. Again, because Greece’s standard of living was below Ireland’s, the degree of change was even greater in Greece than it was in the Irish Republic. The same can be said of Portugal and, to some extent, even of Spain.

Antinazionista’s racist remarks were not limited to Greece, but included the varied countries and peoples of “The Balkans” (see his first post below).

Hatred is a suspect basis for “objective” analysis.

The austerity measures imposed by the Greek government in response to the debt crisis are both necessary and severe. The government has been vigilant in attempting to make sure that they are as equitable as humanly possible. As a socialist government, It has made a special effort to protect the weaker members of society. While, understandably, the measures are not popular, support for the government remains high, higher even than the percentage which gave it a strong parliamentary majority during the last election.

Both Ireland and Greece have benefited from EU membership and both have greatly improved standards of living from the time they first entered the EU. If anything, Greece has progressed more because it was farther behind in every measurable respect. Racism is always an easy response and the first one that the untutored and ignorant gravitate towards.

I don’t suppose there’s a working class Tea Party in Greece calling for the socialist-fascist-communist bastards in government not to get any ideas about redistribution of wealth.

They had a huge budget deficit relative to GDP.  That’s
recklessness of the government, not of the rich.  Of
course, the government is—behind a thin veneer of so-
called ‘socalism’—run by and for the rich, so that’s a
fine distinction.