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Politics and Economy of Greece
• General information about Greece
• Parliamentary elections
• Debt crisis
• Tourism of Greece
• Zakynthos
By Anita Illyés
General information
• Official name: Hellenic
Republic
• Form of government:
parliamentary republic (since
1975)
• President : Karolos Papoulias
• Prime Minister: Antonis
Samaras
• Member of the European
Union since 1981 and joined
the Eurozone in 2001
General information
• Greece has an advanced economy where the service sector takes up more
than 2/3 of the GDP
• GDP composition by sector: agriculture 3,8%,industry 16%, services 80,2%
(in 2012)
• Public debt: 161,3% of GDP
• Unemployment rate: 27,2 % in January 2013(the highest in the EU)
• 59,1% of the under-25 age group looking for a job
Parliamentary elections
• Since the restoration of democracy
(1975), the Greek two-party system has
been dominated by the New
Democracy (ND) and the PASOK.
New Democracy (liberal-conservative)
• Austerity measures or not
• Election results of June 2012: coalition
of ND (29%),PASOK
(12%),Democratic Left(6%)
(opposition party SYRIZA (26%) )
• Consequences:popularity of radical
PASOK (social-democratic)
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
parties,reform of health-care and
pension system,increasing
unemployment
Debt crisis
• Reasons: financial collapse of American banks and companies in 2008 and
Greece had falsified their statistics about their economy for years
• The collapse of Greece would shake the economies of the southern
European countries and would endanger the currently instable Eurozone.
• In May 2010 the other Eurozone countries, and the IMF, agreed to a rescue
package which involved giving Greece an immediate €45 billion in loans,
with more funds to follow, totaling €110 billion.
• Despite austerity measures it does not seems certain that Grecce is able to
solve their debt problems.
Tourism of Greece
• Based on the islands of the Mediterranean coasts, the ancient culture, and
recently on mountains
• ~ 12 million tourists/year
• Promotion of winter tourism
• The most popular places:Athens,Corfu,Crete,Zakynthos,Santorini,Rhodes
Tourism of Greece
• Athens: conference and
sport tourism,cultural
heritage
• Peloponnese: Corinth
canal,Myceane,Sparta
• Olympia
• Thessaloniki
Tourism of Greece
The most popular Greek islands:
• Crete: Samaria gorge,Knossos
• Aegean Islands:Santorini,Rhodes
• Ionian Islands: Corfu,Kefallonia,Ithaki,Zakynthos
Zakynthos
•It is the third largest of
the Ionian Islands.
•Zakynthos is a
separate regional unit of
the Ionian Islands region,
and it is only a
municipality.
•The most famous
landmark of the island is
the Navagio beach.
•Numerous "Blue Caves",
are cut into cliffs around
Cape Skinari, and
accessible only by small
boats.
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