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Monday, June 29, 2015

Greece debt crisis: Workers in Athens’ historic meat market take stock as creditors sharpen their knives

Stavros Koukiadakis, a diminutive trader who sells meat in Athens’ Varvakeion Agora markets, ponders the situation Greeks find themselves in today. His father, he says, worked in the meat market since the fall of the Greek junta in 1974. He says the only crisis that can compare to this is Chernobyl – a nuclear cloud threatening all of Europe. “At least back then people had money on them.”


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