“...to protest against austerity measures...
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What do they expect to accomplish with the strikes when the country is broke? Someone enlighten me, please.
Total disaster and another junta! Tourism makes up 15-20% of their economy. Would you book a trip to Greece right now?
"More from Kate Connolly in Berlin. She reports that insurance experts are advising German travellers to Greece that they may be entitled to cancel their holidays and get full refunds, if they are at risk of having them ruined or if their lives are endangered due to the general strike in Greece:
There's already evidence that substantial numbers of Germans have cancelled holidays to Greece, normally a popular destination for them, or avoided it altogether this summer because of the considerable ill-feeling that exists in Greece over Germany's reluctance to help the country out. Swastikas have been waved in the streets of Athens, etc. Some populist commentators are saying that Germans being punished twice for the Greek disaster – 1. they'll be paying it for years in capped wages, higher debt, etc. 2. their holidays are being ruined to boot.
Tourism is a vital part of the Greek economy, generating close to a fifth of its GDP (estimates vary)."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2010/may/05/eu-debt-crisis-greece-live-nlog