Giorgos Malouhos
Greek author and columnist Giorgos Malouhos (b. 1967) worked for many years for Kathimerini before joing the daily To Vima.
Updated: 20 June 2011
Sources and authors
By Giorgos Malouhos
-
Greek press on the Greek elections (3/5): The day the troika comes back
13 June 20126410 To Vima Athens -
Eurozone crisis: The end of all-powerful Germany
24 May 201226091 To Vima Athens -
Eurozone: Greece retires...
9 February 20129342 To Vima Athens -
Greece: Imperial Germany - eager to bury the euro
20 June 201114323 To Vima Athens
More than the outcome of the June 17 elections, it’s the return of the EU-ECB-IMF delegation that will decide Greece’s fate. Because Germany has already set the tone: little flexibility can be expected. 
The advent of a new administration in Paris has shifted the balance of power in the European Union away from Berlin and German austerity — a development that has been welcomed in Athens as a source of renewed hope and a light at the end of the tunnel for the Greek population. 
Agree to new austerity measures or risk being kicked out of the eurozone: that’s the alternative presented to Athens on the day the euro group is meeting. It’s a situation Greek politicians have failed to avoid, regrets To Vima. 
In publishing the image of a Greek flag draped over the coffin of the single currency, Der Spiegel has revealed the hidden goal of German policies: German hegemony, argues Athenian daily To Vima.