Greece is like an orphaned child who really likes eating candy.
Back in the 1990s, Greece was eating lots of candy, but it wanted to be adopted into a big and wealthy family, and the parents of that family had a rule that they would not adopt children who ate too much candy. Greece kept on eating lots of candy, but it made faces and pretended that some of the candy was actually vegetables; and because some of the other kids in the family had grown fond of Greece, the parents overlooked the continued candy-eating and officially adopted Greece in 2001.
Now, it's sometimes difficult for orphaned children to get their hands on candy, but if you're part of a big and wealthy family, it becomes a lot easier. Just like most children would, Greece started eating a lot more candy. Greece's adopted parents also had rules about how much candy their kids could eat (not just rules for children they were considering adopting) but Greece wasn't the only child who was eating too much candy so they pretty much forgot about those rules for the moment.
Then 2008 hit. Some children on the other side of the world started getting sick from eating too much candy, and immediately people started looking around at other children who were eating lots of candy and worrying about them. Greece, which was by this point very much overweight, came to the top of everybody's lists of children who had eaten too much candy. Suddenly nobody was willing to give Greece any more candy, and this made Greece very unhappy.
So Greece turned to its adoptive parents and begged them to give it some more candy. While they had ignored Greece's growing waistline earlier, they had also gotten worried about it recently; so they offered Greece a deal: They would give Greece more candy -- not a lot, but enough that Greece could still feel slightly good about itself -- if Greece promised to go outside and get lots of exercise.
This worked for a while, and by 2014 Greece was starting to lose weight; but it wasn't very happy with the situation -- Greece wanted to be playing Candy Crush, not running around outside. In January 2015 Greece finally rebelled and told its parents that it was sick of running around outside and wanted a new deal which would allow it to keep eating candy and to be allowed to keep playing Candy Crush.
Greece's parents were not very impressed by this, and promptly told Greece that this was not acceptable, and Greece was not going to get any more candy if Greece didn't start doing as it was told. Today, Greece thought about this, answered back with a resounding NO, and slammed the door as it ran away from home.
So what happens now? Well, Greece isn't going to be getting any more candy, for one thing. Greece is going to be hungry, but the only way it will be able to eat at all is if it goes out and works hard to get it -- which means it won't have much time to play Candy Crush either. Greece might change its mind and go back to its parents, but at this point they're pretty tired of Greece's rebelliousness and they're not likely to start handing out candy unless they see Greece start running laps first.
Back in the 1990s, Greece was eating lots of candy, but it wanted to be adopted into a big and wealthy family, and the parents of that family had a rule that they would not adopt children who ate too much candy. Greece kept on eating lots of candy, but it made faces and pretended that some of the candy was actually vegetables; and because some of the other kids in the family had grown fond of Greece, the parents overlooked the continued candy-eating and officially adopted Greece in 2001.
Now, it's sometimes difficult for orphaned children to get their hands on candy, but if you're part of a big and wealthy family, it becomes a lot easier. Just like most children would, Greece started eating a lot more candy. Greece's adopted parents also had rules about how much candy their kids could eat (not just rules for children they were considering adopting) but Greece wasn't the only child who was eating too much candy so they pretty much forgot about those rules for the moment.
Then 2008 hit. Some children on the other side of the world started getting sick from eating too much candy, and immediately people started looking around at other children who were eating lots of candy and worrying about them. Greece, which was by this point very much overweight, came to the top of everybody's lists of children who had eaten too much candy. Suddenly nobody was willing to give Greece any more candy, and this made Greece very unhappy.
So Greece turned to its adoptive parents and begged them to give it some more candy. While they had ignored Greece's growing waistline earlier, they had also gotten worried about it recently; so they offered Greece a deal: They would give Greece more candy -- not a lot, but enough that Greece could still feel slightly good about itself -- if Greece promised to go outside and get lots of exercise.
This worked for a while, and by 2014 Greece was starting to lose weight; but it wasn't very happy with the situation -- Greece wanted to be playing Candy Crush, not running around outside. In January 2015 Greece finally rebelled and told its parents that it was sick of running around outside and wanted a new deal which would allow it to keep eating candy and to be allowed to keep playing Candy Crush.
Greece's parents were not very impressed by this, and promptly told Greece that this was not acceptable, and Greece was not going to get any more candy if Greece didn't start doing as it was told. Today, Greece thought about this, answered back with a resounding NO, and slammed the door as it ran away from home.
So what happens now? Well, Greece isn't going to be getting any more candy, for one thing. Greece is going to be hungry, but the only way it will be able to eat at all is if it goes out and works hard to get it -- which means it won't have much time to play Candy Crush either. Greece might change its mind and go back to its parents, but at this point they're pretty tired of Greece's rebelliousness and they're not likely to start handing out candy unless they see Greece start running laps first.
All in all, Greece is in for a few unhappy years.