Percy writes:
The new agreement includes concessions by Greece that reform the tax and pension system, open up closed professions, relax Sunday trading laws, and deregulate many businesses, which sounds like same-old same-old to me. Nowhere have I seen mention of stimulus of the Greek economy.
We were on holiday in Spain last week, and my wife saw a BBC World anchorbot describe the bullet points of the Greece deal. The last point was thrown in almost as an afterthought: "Oh, and Greece's ports will all be privatised." This has been a years-long controversy in Greece, and the current crisis has been a green light to the carpetbaggers.
On the lighter side, we saw a Greece-related headline on a French newspaper that was delightfully Joycean:
Partez Oui ou Parthnon?