Introduction

Situated at the cultural and political boundaries of Europe, the migration frontier for the Eurοpean Union, and the epicentre of the Eurozone crisis, Greece presents a unique and challenging context. For the past six years, the country has rarely been out of the news headlines. Dozens of reports by international organisations and numerous academic papers and books have underlined the structural problems of the Greek economy, castigating the clientelistic nature of Greek politics and pointing to the inability of the Greek state to reform.