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How Greece Exposed Europe's Potemkin Democracy

Gary Younge
November 9, 2011   |    This article appeared in the November 28, 2011 edition of The Nation.
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It’s not surprising that  Greece’s proposed referendum elicited such outrage. Europe doesn’t work like that.

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Gary Younge
Gary Younge, the Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the New York correspondent for the ...

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Gary Younge
November 9, 2011   |    This article appeared in the November 28, 2011 edition of The Nation.
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