Greece
The 2012 elections in Greece were overshadowed by the country's dire financial position, with a heavy backlash against the ruling parties that supported stiff austerity measures. The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement party lost much ground, with no party having the numbers or the agreement to form a working coalition. As a result, new elections will immediately be held.
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“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labors.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)