Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-wracked country finally forms a coalition government... but how long will it last? | Digg Topnews

Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-wracked country finally forms a coalition government... but how long will it last? | Digg Topnews


Starving Greeks queued around the block for free food handouts yesterday as the country's politicians managed to end a crippling stalemate to form a coalition government.
Young children as well as the elderly waited in line in Athens to collect the parcels of fruit and vegetables donated by farmers from Crete to help ease the devastating austerity faced by many Greeks.
But as hungry people collected food, a few miles away a new conservative-led alliance was formed, vowing to renegotiate the country's strict European bailout in a bid to breath economic life back into the debt-stricken country.






















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