Greek Financial Crisis: Balkan Aftershocks?

The Greek financial shock has rippled across its hinterland. Solutions for Balkan states may be unappetising: crime and corruption are rampant. And once again, ethnic politics are returning to centre stage.

The World Today Updated 14 October 2020 4 minute READ

James Pettifer

Author of The New Macedonia Question, Palgrave 2001

Balkan neighbors are looking southwards to sunny Greece after the hardest winter for many years with a mixture of schadenfreude and anxiety.

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