The People, Photos and Stories That Defined the Greek Financial Crisis
(WorldNews Greece)

This article originally appeared on VICE Greece. Last weekend, in his first major speech since his country was released from its debt obligations, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras stepped up to the podium at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) to declare an end to austerity. For the past eight years, Greece has suffered through an unprecedented period of economic crisis. When the country realised it couldn`t manage its debt in 2011, the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank stepped in to help, but only on the condition that Greece adopted a series of strict austerity measures - pension cuts, public sector layoffs - in exchange for four debt relief packages worth...