A Greek Taxing Woman Faces Task of Restoring Confidence – By Nikos Chrysoloras and Eleni Chrepa Katerina Savvaidou, nominated Greece’s top tax collector, has her job cut out for her. The 41-year-old Supreme Court lawyer, university lecturer and PricewaterhouseCoopers manager was named late last night by Greece’s finance ministry to replace Haris Theoharis, who was ousted after he pursued claims…
Brutal and diverse, coarse and noisy, the enemies of the European Union are inside the gates. Chauvinists and angry anti-capitalists, neo-Nazis and drunkards, charlatans and demagogues, they spit hatred, they flatter insecurities, they profit from indignation. They come with a simple solution for every complex problem: It is all the fault of the EU and the euro; their dissolution would…