2017 has not been a good year for Greece's housing market. In the third quarter of the year, property prices fell by 0.6, continuing a trend that had previously seen a decline of 1.2 percent in the second quarter.
At a time when the mainstream narrative is all about how Greece’s ‘best and brightest’ minds have been fleeing the country in drones, many of them coming to Australia, it is a rare exception to see someone make the opposite journey, from Melbourne to Athens, a sign of eccentricity even. But Ben - 'Bjenny" - Montero was never afraid to stand out.
Former finance minister Yiannis Varoufakis misses no opportunity to let loose barbs against prime minister Alexis Tsipras.