End of Greek Aid Package as Country Faces Demographic Crisis
&gt;It&#x27;s surprising because economic liberalism doesn&#x27;t have any deep roots in Greece. There is no liberal party. The Greeks traditionally think in terms of left and right.<p>A) There is a liberal party in Greece (just as much as there is a liberal party in Germany or France), the people just don&#x27;t vote for it.<p>B) Liberalism and &quot;laissez-faire thinking&quot; <i>are</i> right wing, I can&#x27;t see another way of thinking about that.<p>I am a recent (after-crisis) Greek immigrant and the assumptions made by the article are not true for me. It is not the wages (I am a professional in an area where there are a lot of good paying jobs, even in Greece) or the bad public sector (you learn to deal with that) that is keeping me away from Greece. It is the beyond-imagination terrible working conditions. Why would I leave my union-protected job in Germany to work twice as many hours (paid overtime is not a thing in Greece) with 0 job stability?