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GREECE: Seeds of hatred sprout in soil of Greek crisis

10 July 2012

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Includes a report on clashes between supporters of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, which campaigned on a pledge to clear Greece of all immigrants, and groups of anarchists shook the western city of Agrinio on Monday night: "Yanis Varoufakis, an economist and lecturer at Athens University, says that “the serpent’s egg” of hatred begins to hatch whenever people lose hope and those spreading the hatred end up as the only winners. “It should act as a warning for all of us that whenever a social economy implodes, as opposed to just going to a recession, scapegoating becomes the order of the day,” he said.

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