Kemal Derviş, Loukas Tsoukalis, George Pagoulatos, Dimitris Katsikas, Kyriakos Filinis, Marianthi Anastasatou, Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Thanos Dokos and Sofronis Clerides, (2013), “Greek Myths and Reality”, www.brookings.edu, 6 August.
Greece has been in the eye of the financial storm that first hit the United States and then Europe during the last few years. Nobody can seriously argue that Greece was caught in the storm as an innocent victim. Its vulnerability has been the product of numerous mistakes and failings. And perhaps unavoidably, Greece has received a great deal of international attention, much of it negative and often undeserved. We have set ourselves the task to examine critically some of present day stories and stereotypes about Greece, what we call Greek myths. These are the myths that colleagues will try to debunk armed with arguments and data. But as with most myths, there are usually grains of truth in them.