Welcome to the new version of European Tribune. It's just a new layout, so everything should work as before - please report bugs here.
Display:
What makes them PIIGS? | 52 comments (52 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: What makes them PIIGS? (4.00 / 3)
Seems to me that terrain and geography matters a lot.

I've driven a lot in Greece, Italy and Spain. Italy and Spain are big countries with very diversified terrain. I once spent 36 hours on a train from Padova to Sicily (and yes, it broke down a number of times, but was not stopped for more than an hour at any given time). Greece is pretty mountainous and Spain is just big.

by Upstate NY on Fri Apr 9th, 2010 at 01:35:30 PM EST

Others have rated this comment as follows:

melo 4
Mnemosyne 4
metavision 4

What makes them PIIGS? | 52 comments (52 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Display:

Top Diaries

Deflationary QE

by afew - Jan 25
3 comments

Another modest proposal. LQD.

by melo - Jan 23
4 comments

Intertribal Problems Stuck on Stupid

by gmoke - Jan 15
5 comments

On the RhB 2: along the Inn river

by DoDo - Jan 20
4 comments

Time for the ECB Board to be sacked

by Frank Schnittger - Jan 16
104 comments

Oil Market: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words

by ChrisCook - Jan 1
65 comments

Piketty: Amnesia, Selfishness

by afew - Jan 5
44 comments

Reality According to the OBR

by rifek - Jan 5
9 comments

Recent Diaries

Deflationary QE

by afew - Jan 25
3 comments

Another modest proposal. LQD.

by melo - Jan 23
4 comments

On the RhB 2: along the Inn river

by DoDo - Jan 20
4 comments

Time for the ECB Board to be sacked

by Frank Schnittger - Jan 16
104 comments

Intertribal Problems Stuck on Stupid

by gmoke - Jan 15
5 comments

Piketty: Amnesia, Selfishness

by afew - Jan 5
44 comments

Reality According to the OBR

by rifek - Jan 5
9 comments

On the Rhaetian Railway 1: along the Anterior Rhine

by DoDo - Jan 2
5 comments

Oil Market: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words

by ChrisCook - Jan 1
65 comments

Exit strategies

by melo - Dec 31
6 comments

So economics teaching isn't the problem?

by Metatone - Dec 31
29 comments

LQD: New election in Greece

by rz - Dec 29
56 comments

No new elections in Sweden

by A swedish kind of death - Dec 27
55 comments

How old are we?

by das monde - Dec 27
26 comments

More Diaries...

Occasional Series