Missing Link to Yanis Varoufakis

As of 2015, Greece’s GDP had fallen for seven consecutive years. Some 28% of Greeks were unemployed, and 500,000 educated youths had emigrated. Such dire economic circumstances deter investment in the country. The Greek crisis unfurled for two reasons: First, Greece’s economic woes are as old as the state. The nation borrowed heavily to finance a revolution against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. After Greece secured its independence, 150 years of conflicts and dictatorships ensued, ending in 1974. As Greece prepared to join the European Economic Community, it lowered its trade barriers, thereby exposing its embryonic industries...