Thursday 2011-03-10

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:00:14 -0000
From: Financial Times - World
Subject: Greeks adopt 'won't pay' attitude

Protest against Athens' debt reduction measures is gathering momentum, with the
now nationwide anti-austerity movement 'Den Plirono' ('I won't pay') refusing
to pay tolls and travel fares

-- FT

Greece should drop this "we're a country" facade and revert back to city-states. The politicians hopped on the post-Napoleonic nationalist bandwagon and left their populaces behind.