A Country On The Edge: The Collapse Of Greece
I spent four months living in Athens from January 2011 to May 2011. Despite impressions to the contrary, Athens is not a beautiful European city. It was constructed predominantly in the 1950’s and 1960’s — an era that could not exactly be called the pinnacle of beauty in architecture. Many of the older buildings that weren’t destroyed by the Nazi’s in WWII were destroyed during the building boom that followed.
What it lacks in physical assets it makes up for in its history and the drama of the situation the country (of which Athens is overwhelmingly the most important part) faces. The astounding amount of debt they are responsible for poses a threat not just to the viability of the country, but of the entire Eurozone, and by extension the whole European Union project. The eyes of the world fall on this one tiny country with the power to break the most impressive and successful political and economic alliance potentially in all of history.
