Greek workers have started a 48-hour strike to protest the new troika-sponsored austerity measures.
Here’s Gavin Hewitt, Europe editor for the BBC:
The problem is this: the Greek people overwhelmingly have turned against further austerity.
They do not believe it has worked. This is the fifth year that the economy has shrunk. Unemployment for 15- to 24-year-olds has reached 48%. There is a huge increase in the homeless. The signs of a broken society are everywhere.
Even those who want to stay in the Eurozone – and the polls suggest that more than 65% still do – believe that the measures demanded by the EU and the IMF are pushing Greece into a cycle of decline.
