Sentence examples for Greek from inspiring English sources

But Greek voters are equally certain that it's unfair for them to suffer years of slim government budgets and high unemployment in order to repay foreign banks and richer northern neighbors, which have reaped outsized benefits from closer European integration.

There is no traffic on the island so the best way to explore the stunning Byzantine monasteries and Greek Orthodox churches is by bike or horse-drawn carriage.

Addressing a business forum in Brussels the Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, also said he believed an agreement would be "in the offing in the next days, at most weeks".

October high: 24C The Greek islands can lose their lustre out of season, but southern Crete falls into the north African climatic zone and basks in sunshine long after other resorts have put up the shutters.

Yanis Varoufakis, the flamboyant Greek finance minister, wrote to Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister and head of the eurogroup, and laid out seven proposed reforms of the Greek economy before Monday's meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels.

"The Greek government gambled that if it negotiated with us, the ECB would open its cashier windows, relax the rules," the Dutchman said in a television interview.

Nikos Kotzias, the new Greek foreign minister, said Greece wanted to "prevent a rift" between Russia and the EU, although both sides have been in acute conflict for the past 10 months over Moscow's assault on Ukraine.

With Greece's great economic crisis catapulting tourism onto centre stage, industry figures have spent much of the crisis devising ways of better showcasing the "Greek tourism product".

We have Greek levels of debt, but German interest rates.

If this sounds familiar, here's what to do with them: make this Greek "rag" pie or patsavoura.

Western diplomats in the Greek capital speak of "a dangerous game of brinkmanship" being played at a highly sensitive time.