Greece's Horizons: Reflecting on the Country's Assets and by Pantelis Sklias, Nikolaos Tzifakis

By Pantelis Sklias, Nikolaos Tzifakis

The Greek financial hindrance has imperilled the steadiness of the eurozone, producing a lot international nervousness. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have day-by-day debated the process the Greek financial system, prescribing how one can flow ahead. This number of essays gradually strikes from an research of the reasons of the concern and the coverage responses to this point to a debate on many of the countryʼs benefits and functions that are supposed to underpin its new improvement version and propel the go back to development. The ebook analytically chooses to view the glass as half-full and seeks to supply motivation and notion for switch through indicating the various monetary sectors the place Greece continues a comparative virtue. hence, it demanding situations the rising photograph of Greece as a rustic doomed to failure, the place every thing falls apart.

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2010, May 26). Grecja: 234 urze˛dnikσw z resortu finansσw kantowało na podatkach. Grochal, R. (2010, May 28). Tusk uderza w Kaczyn´skiego. Gazeta Wyborcza. Hauter, F. (2010, February 11). La Gre`ce prise au pie`ge de ses incohe´rences. Le Figaro. -J. (2010, March 4). Nicht schon wieder! Die Zeit. -J. (2010, April 29). Der letzte Sirtaki. Die Zeit. Krugman, P. (2010, May 16). No somos Grecia. El Pais. , & Kitsantonis, N. (2010, March 6). Germany offers no financial help to ailing Greece. The New York Times.

3 Deconstructing the Greeks: Corrupt, Lazy, and Morally Offside This last section aims to sketch the qualitative characteristics that define the nature and the parameters of the negative discourse on Greece in the international press. There are at least three dominant themes that give shape to this negative discourse: ‘corruption’, ‘lack of credibility’, and ‘irresponsibility’. The repetitive, extensive, and intensive mobilisation of these themes in relation to Greece, in the entire media sample and throughout the period under examination, points to a very serious damage to the image of Greece at the international level.

The New York Times. , & Pauly, S. (2010, February 16). Germans upset over helping Greece. The New York Times. Lachevre, C. (2009, December 10). La Gre`ce, e´preuve de ve´rite´ pour l’euro. Le Figaro. Missi, A. (2010, February 16). Bruselas vigilarα a los Estados para evitar falsificaciones en las cuentas. El Pais. Naohisa, I. (2010, July 14). Quirky poll result could be watershed. The Daily Yomiuri. , & Tatje, C. (2010, May 12). Warum sollte ich Fehler gestehen? Der Wa¨hrungskommissar der Europa¨ischen Union, Olli Rehn, will den Euro retten–und dafu¨r su¨ndige Mitgliedsla¨nder maßregeln.

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