Greece's Golden Dawn extreme right party leader Nikos Michaloliakos delivers a speech during a rally in central Athens on February 2, 2013. Greece's worst economic crisis since World War Two proved fertile ground for anti-immigrant sentiment and the rise of the ultranationalist party which was propelled from obscurity into parliament for the first time in 2012.
An employee of the state-owned Labour Housing Organisation (OEK) threatens to jump off the company building in Athens after the government decided to shut down the organisation and lay off its staff on February 15, 2012. Suicides rose sharply during Greece's financial crisis with hundreds driven to the desperate act.
Adriana, a prostitute who charges 5 euros for sex, lays on a hotel bed in Athens after escaping a large police raid earlier that day on April 22, 2013. Adriana, who is pregnant, prostitutes herself daily. At the height of Greece's economic crisis, a new drug named "Sisa" emerged in central Athens neighborhoods. Known as the "drug of the poor," it costs 5 euros per dose and consists of barbiturates and other ingredients like alcohol, chlorine or even battery fluids.
Dinos sleeps in the living-room of his house under the light of a candle at the impoverished Perama district near Athens on September 20, 2013. Dinos and his mother lived in a small house without electricity for at least six months. Thousands of poor Greek families cannot afford electricity, one of the many effects of harsh austerity measures that led Greece deep into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
The area where the Eldorado Gold mining company begun the construction of a gold mine at the region of Skouries in Halkidiki, northern Greece on October 29, 2012. The citizens of the region continue their struggle against the construction of the mine. The company exploits the situation in Greece for investments.
Part of the PPC factory premises in Ptolemaida, Northern Greece on September 28, 2018. The probability of privatization of 40% of PPC's lignite units is at the heart of the political conflict over the crisis. In case this happens some of the consequences will include salary cuts and dismissals of employees.
This photo taken on July 24, 2018 show cars burnt following a wildfire at the village of Mati, Greece. The Greek government is heavily criticised for its management of the deadly fires that destroyed, end of July, a seaside region on the east of Athens, and that killed 99 people. During the Greek crisis, Greek governments neglected to take adequate preventative measures for forrest fires.
Unfinished blocks of flats erected on a piece of land in Nea Politeia, Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. Most were erected on land that was given as consideration for 2004-2009, but the crisis froze the real estate market. Many remained unfinished, while many landlords panicked and rushed to sell them up to half the price sold by contractors.
The representative of the association informs the employees about the progress of their legal actions concerning their accruals, on September 28, 2018. The employees of the Euromedica Group Hospital have been in a permanent labyrinth for 7 consecutive years without any way out. According to the association's representative every 45 days "our company gives us 200-250 euros". In those years, they have experienced what could be imagined, from wage cuts, rights deductions, labor intensification, fear of unemployment when they justifiably demand their accruals.
A former Greek night club in Vatero village near Kozani, North Greece, on September 29, 2018, which was used for entertainment by local people. It is a copy of the building of the National Opera of Sydney but it was closed down due to the financial crisis. As a result, similar businesses in the countryside have closed down.
A part of the former ceramic factory Vio.Me in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, on September 26, 2018. Just two years after the start of the crisis, Greece's oldest and largest ceramics company has gone bankrupt. Former employees were not paid their wages, they occupied the factory and managed it from then on. Instead of making ceramic chemistry tiles for the parent company Philkeram Johnson, as they did before, they now produce, among other things, ecological soap, which is distributed around the world.
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