ATHENS - It was not the scene that Greece's international stewards envisaged when they last visited the country at the epicenter of Europe's financial mess. When representatives of the Troika of creditors arrived in June, book-keeping in Athens had been problem-free and monitors described their inspection tour as 'almost boring'. The great Greek debt crisis, it seemed, had finally gone quiet.
But when mission heads representing the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank fly into Athens on Sept. 22 ? for the start of a review upon which the future of Greece will hang ? what they will find is a country teetering on the edge: its people divided as never before, its mood brittle, its streets the setting for running battles between anti-fascists and neo-Nazis. And unions girding for battle.
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