{"id":54972,"date":"2018-08-21T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/21\/greece-may-still-be-europes-sick-patient-but-the-eu-is-at-deaths-door-marina-prentoulis\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:42:09","slug":"greece-may-still-be-europes-sick-patient-but-the-eu-is-at-deaths-door-marina-prentoulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54972","title":{"rendered":"Greece may still be Europe\u2019s sick patient, but the EU is at death\u2019s door | Marina Prentoulis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU-imposed austerity is finally over for pauperised Greece \u2013 and it\u2019s time for a rethink of the whole European projectGreece has entered a new, \u201cnormal\u201d phase now that the formal lending agreement with the troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, European commission) has come to an end. But after eight years of austerity, the truth is that no one can afford rose-tinted glasses. The crisis has cost Greece 25% of its GDP \u2013 unprecedented for any European nation during peace time \u2013 the unemployment rate sits at almost 20%, even after hundreds of thousands of people have migrated, and national debt is about 180%.Even without its lending arrangements in place, Greece is not totally free from the creditors \u2013 a series of audits will ensure that the continuing reforms will go ahead to ensure a \u201chealthy\u201d economy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/aug\/21\/greece-europe-eu-austerity\" target=\"_blank\">Greece may still be Europe\u2019s sick patient, but the EU is at death\u2019s door | Marina Prentoulis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU-imposed austerity is finally over for pauperised Greece \u2013 and it\u2019s time for a rethink of the whole European projectGreece has entered a new, \u201cnormal\u201d phase now that the formal lending agreement with the troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, European commission) has come to an end. But after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}