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| The number of homeless people has risen to unprecedented levels for a European country: unofficial estimates put them at 40,000.' Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images |
The EU's own poverty standards show that Greece is in crisis. But member states won't admit their 'bailout' was to blame
European societies typically assume that humanitarian crises
only take place in the aftermath of natural disasters, epidemics, wars
or civil conflicts.That such a crisis could happen in a European
country, especially one that is a member of the European Union, seems
out of the question to many of us.
