Greece
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The slogan "Eat the rich" is spray-painted on the wall of a bank in central Athens.
Greece’s economic problems have already contributed to the ousting of the center-right New Democracy party in elections last October, ending a five-year reign. But from the rest of the world’s point of view, things only got worse for Greece when, later that month, the European Commission announced that Greece’s fiscal deficit stood at 14 percent of GDP—almost twice what the official Greek government statistics had reported.
