Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Greek austerity measures make for a lower-key Christmas in Athens

When you are bankrupt, you have to do Christmas on a budget. And so it is in Greece, starved of cash thanks to the country's great economic crisis. Only years after it had basked in the glory of erecting Europe's biggest Christmas tree, city hall in Athens is now forced to be more thrifty with its display of fairy lights and fir.


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The Guardian