EUROZONE : ECHOES OF THE CRISIS.

Three million Greeks on brink of poverty in 2010: The crisis is dealing a cruel blow to Greeks: just over three million of the country's 11 million inhabitants were on the brink of poverty or social exclusion in 2010, according to figures published by the national statistical office, Elstat. Some 3.031 million Greeks are poor or at the borderline of social exclusion, ie 27.7% of the population, show statistics for the first year of what is commonly referred to as the Greek crisis', which also marked the country's third year of recession. In the European Union, this percentage is exceeded only by Bulgaria (41.6%), Romania (41.4%), Latvia (38.1%), Lithuania (33.4%)...