Greece

‘Conditions in Greece are grim, as one can see from the elderly ladies silently begging for their family’s next meal’

‘What happens if Greece can’t pay its enormous debts back to the ECB? Inevitably, the banks from Germany, the netherlands and Finland will have to pay’

‘It is not rational to delight in a eurozone collapse. But the euro has become the supreme icon of all we despise about the EU’

François Hollande’s lack of clear convictions won him the presidency. Will France regret saying non to Sarkozy?

‘After the elections in France and Greece the idea of Ed Miliband as prime minister is moving from late-night fear to probability’

‘The problem is not austerity versus growth. The problem is that our social model — whether in France or Greece or elsewhere in Europe — no longer works’

‘The malaise in Western Europe is attributable to affluence bought not by economic dynamism but by reckless borrowing. The response of Greece and Italy is to walk away from democracy’

In 1953 Thomas Mann called “not for a German Europe, but a European Germany”. Now we have both—and neither is happy

Greeks have been fiddling the books ever since Agamemnon. Where else do you find such private generosity and public irresponsibility?