By Andrew Butter (Guest Post)
As the bankers queued up to get served their pound of flesh of Sparta, which is all that’s currently on offer, it’s hard not to notice the striking similarities between the Greece of today and Germany’s Weimar Republic in 1923. Germany then also owed billions thanks to a treaty that was made in a French-speaking country along with an offer that couldn’t be refused, back then Versailles, this time Maastricht. Back then government employees were demanding their wages, unions were on strike, the coffers were empty, and the government of the day…
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