If the government does not handle the real problems that are piling up for years, all measures for central Athens would be superficial, says the longtime resident of Victoria Square Kriton Piperas in an interview with Anastasia Balezdrova.
Greece hopes to get additional 60 billion euros as it has no prospects to enter the capital markets by 2012. Europe is divided into two on whether the debt should be restructured or not and insists on political consensus for reforms.
The police unite two police squads to prevent racist attacks against foreigners and actions by far rightists in the centre of Athens. The citizens are increasingly resorting to the services of security companies.
Desperate from the indecisiveness of the government of George Papandreou, the experts from the supervisory troika are considering limitation of the national sovereignty and the involvement of foreign technocrats in the government of the country