‘From bad to worse’: Greece hurtles towards a final reckoning
by Helena Smith in Athens from on (#2D5XA)
With another bailout set to bring more cuts, quitting the euro is back on the agenda
Dimitris Costopoulos stood, worry beads in hand, under brilliant blue skies in front of the Greek parliament. Wearing freshly pressed trousers, polished shoes and a smart winter jacket - "my Sunday best" - he had risen at 5am to get on the bus that would take him to Athens 200 miles away and to the great sandstone edifice on Syntagma Square. By his own admission, protests were not his thing.
At 71, the farmer rarely ventures from Proastio, his village on the fertile plains of Thessaly. "But everything is going wrong," he lamented on Tuesday, his voice hoarse after hours of chanting anti-government slogans.
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