Greece's Dark Decade with Kyriakos Mitsotakis

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In bailing out Greece did the European Union destroy the village in order to save it? Today on the show, Ian dives deep into the Greek debt crisis to bring you a tale of such adversity to be worthy of Homer, himself. Then he'll speak to the man who will likely be Greece's next prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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0:00.0	Well, we lost 25%, 26% to be exact, of our GDP.
0:13.7	And overall, it was a very traumatic experience.
0:19.3	Hi, I'm Ian Bremmer, and welcome to the GZero World Podcast, an audio version of what you can find on public television, where I analyze global topics, sit down with big guests, and make use of small puppets.
0:33.5	This week, I sit down with Kariakos Mitsutakis, the head of Greece's main opposition party and the country's likely next prime minister.
0:42.3	I will ask him about Greece's painful last decade and what lies ahead for his country and for himself in the years to come.
0:50.7	Let's get to it.
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1:24.1	Kiracos Mitsutakas, president of New in Greece, perhaps the next prime minister of the country.
1:30.3	Very good to be with you.
1:32.3	Well, thank you very much for having me.
1:34.3	So maybe start with a little of the pain.
1:37.3	I mean, Greece has just been through and is not out of a depression that was both wider and deeper than what was
1:48.1	experienced in the United States. Tell our viewers a little bit about what that's done to your
1:55.3	country. Well, we lost 25%, 26% to be exact, of our GDP.
2:03.1	And overall, it was a very traumatic experience for a Greek society.
2:09.9	Unemployment skyrocketed.
2:12.5	400,000 young Greeks were forced to leave the country.
2:22.3	Very talented, very educated young Greeks were forced to leave the country, very talented, very educated, young Greeks decided to leave, were forced to leave because they didn't have enough good jobs.
2:28.3	Poverty increased significantly, so there was a lot of pain.
2:33.3	And the problem with the Greek crisis
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