Greece, Giórgos Papandréou, Economic, social issues, migration crisis, European Union, Greek economic crisis, possible Grexit, Alexis Tsipras, political incertitude, Greece management of the crisis
Greece is a country located in the South East of Europe. It is a member of the European Union and its population is about 10.75 million inhabitants. It's a member of the EU since 1981 and joined the Eurozone in 2001. In the past few years, Greece experienced an economic crisis, social issues and recently migrant crisis. First, we are going to talk about the Greek economic crisis. Then we're going to study the consequences of the crisis and the society and finally we will see one of the world's main issues: the migrant crisis in Greece.
[...] In June 2015, Greece was officially in default. Tsipras made the banks closed and organized a referendum to ask the population to decide whether they agree or not to the new austerity plans wished by the eurozone. The population disagreed and the idea of Grexit was strengthening. Alexis Tsipras, supported by the population, was taking over the negotiations. On July 13th, after 17 hours of negotiation, The Grexit was ruled out and a third help plan with 80 billion is considered. [...]
[...] It's unable to cope with both economic and migrant crises. As a consequence refugees are starving, suffering bad health conditions in overcrowded and under-funded camps. The Greek migration crisis raises two issues: on the one hand, the humanitarian crisis flowing from the migrant crisis and the other hand, international relations issues. The burden of Greece seems to be too heavy compared to its economic health and yet it has to manage the worst migration crisis Europe has encountered for decades. Is Greece economically healthy enough to manage the crisis? [...]
[...] Greece - Economic, Social issues and Migration crisis Greece is a country located in the South East of Europe. It is a member of the European Union and its population is about 10.75 million inhabitants. It's a member of the EU since 1981 and joined the Eurozone in 2001. In the past few years, Greece experienced an economic crisis, social issues and recently migrant crisis. First, we are going to talk about the Greek economic crisis. Then we're going to study the consequences of the crisis and the society and finally we will see one of the world's main issues: the migrant crisis in Greece. [...]
[...] Officials of the Eurozone decided then to launch a second help plan with 237 billion euros which included the cancellation of half of its debt taken out from private creditors. But to keep receiving help, Greece had to show its willingness. Between 2010 and 2015, the country implemented seven more austerity plans. A policy that the population disapproved and protested against. Besides, the situation is not improving and its debt is still growing. In 2010, it was up to 140% of GDP and in 2015 it reached 175% of its GDP. [...]
[...] Further pension cuts, rise of health contributions paid by pensioners, people can no longer trust the government all they have to do is to wait and see if all these austerity measures will make a better Greece. Migration Crisis With war and instability in the Middle East, hundreds of thousands of people have to flee their homeland to save their life and those of their children. While some of them are fleeing to neighbouring countries, the majority of these migrants have no other choice to come to Europe. Indeed, Arabic Gulf countries don't want to welcome refugees. Greece is an open door to Europe. [...]
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