Showing posts with label Leonidas Pitsoulis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonidas Pitsoulis. Show all posts

21 October 2011

In Greece, 'corruption pervades every corner of life' - by Jon Henley



I repost the newblog post by the Guardian


Original article stable link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/20/europe-breadline-corrution-pervades-corner



AT THE BOTTOM I INCLUDE MY COMMENT




Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the human stories behind the European debt crisis. Here Leonidas Pitsoulis describes Greek corruption





Greece on the Breadline


Many Greeks have extremely low levels of personal debt – by western standards. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images




Leonidas Pitsoulis, 43, returned to Thessaloniki seven years ago after leaving at 18 to study and then teach in America and at the LSE in London. Coming back as an adult after leaving as a teenager was an eye-opener, he said.