Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
June 22, 2010
New police effort to quell rising crime wave in Athens' historic central area
From kathimerini:
"The Greek Police (ELAS) yesterday heralded the creation of a new unit of 300 officers who are to be permanently stationed in the capital’s historic center with the aim of curbing burgeoning crime there.
The initiative, launched yesterday, involves 300 officers deployed in a one-kilometer radius around Omonia Square. The officers’ priority is to curb drug dealing and prostitution, which are rife in the area, and to crack down on rings of robbers and muggers that have been targeting stores and pedestrians in the area with increasing frequency over the past few months.
The new force, created following a redistribution of personnel by Attica’s police headquarters, is to be exclusively responsible for policing the city’s historic center.
...Thousands of migrants are currently living in derelict and run-down buildings in the center with hundreds more detained in police detention centers."
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