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.
July 10, 2010
Protests on July 8 were unusually small, but marked by violence
Video at Fox News about the protests on Thursday. Though it has what you would expect (colorful KKE marchers) it also seems to make an unintentional point that the core demonstrators aren't so concerned about the pension overhaul as they are with old-fashioned revolutionary politics:
"While overall numbers at the protest were estimated at around 5,000, one of the lowest turn-outs this year, the number of extremists and radicals remained high, along with the potential for violence they bring.
Nearby the parliament, anarchists pounced on a man they apparently thought was a plainclothes policeman. Instead he was a government worker and was taken away in a comatose state."
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