Claire Gatinois
French journalist Claire Gatinois is an editor for the economics pages of Le Monde.
Updated: 6 January 2012
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By Claire Gatinois
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Greece: The bosses’ lament
28 May 20121516 Le Monde Paris -
Spain: Paying with pesetas in Salvaterra de Miño
6 January 20121945 Le Monde Paris
An omnipresent public sector, all-powerful unions, political clientelism: Greek entrepreneurs, have an interminable litany of grievances about their country. The business community, which is better schooled in the arts of offshoring and tax evasion than it is in research and development, will also be the first to suffer if Greece exits the euro. 
In response to the crisis, shopkeepers in Salvaterra de Miño have decided to once again accept the former national currency. And the customers, attracted by prices at the same exchange rate that applied at the launch of the euro in 2002, are flocking to the Galician village.