Eight Years After EU-IMF Bailout, Greece Sees Poverty, Suffering

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Workers of state hospitals take part in an anti-austerity rally in Athens, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Hundreds of workers in the country's health system staged a rally opposing austerity measures which will affect their sector. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Anti-austerity rally in Athens, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Dr. Michael Nevradakis of Dialogos Radio discusses the realities in Greece which contradict the narrative of a “Greek exit from the crisis.”

Far from “bailing out” Greece, the impacts of eight years of harsh austerity are manifested in a marked increase in poverty, suffering, and want. And far from “ending,” the austerity measures attached to Greece’s three successive “bailouts” are slated to continue for decades to come.

 

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