Modern Icarus

Published on 30 September 2011

How to get your country back on its feet while keeping your EU partners, the IMF, the markets without burning your wings in the flames of the people's ire? Greek PM George Papandreou has a task similar to that of the mythical hero who wanted to fly to the sun.

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