Wife shields Greece's Varoufakis from anarchist attack at restaurant

[bemildred]

ATHENS - A group of self-styled anarchists threw glass objects at Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife Danae at an Athens restaurant late on Tuesday, but she hugged him to shield him from the attack, the finance ministry said.

The couple had just finished having dinner with friends in the bohemian Exarchia district -- the site of frequent protests by left-wing protesters -- when the group entered the restaurant's courtyard, telling them to leave "their area".

Varoufakis said his wife, an artist, blocked the attack. They tried "for a few seconds to reach me without hitting her," he said in the ministry statement.

Then "they retreated fast continuing their curses and threats, got out of the courtyard and waited for us outside the restaurant," Varoufakis added.

http://www.todayonline.com/world/wife-shields-greeces-varoufakis-anarchist-attack-restaurant

[jakeXT]

1. EU has no money for Greece, but 11 billion for Ukraine

With Golden Dawn waiting in Greece I see a bright future



http://hellenicinsider.com/eu-has-no-money-for-greece-but-does-have-11-billion-euros-for-non-member-state-ukraine-victoria-nuland-was-right-fk-the-eu/

[bemildred]

2. Well actually, the EU seems divided about Ukraine.

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The EU is doing a good job of fucking itself it seems to me.

[jakeXT]

3. Old and New Europe as Rummy explained to us. /nt

[DetlefK]

4. €154+ billion is no money???

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/assistance_eu_ms/greek_loan_facility/index_en.htm



And for those who demand that Greece needs more money, not austerity: Greece already said that it won't be able to ever repay the full loans.
Whose money would those people like to dump into the black hole of an unreformed Greece?