Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: A crisis that could tear Europe apart

http://brightbridgewealthmanagement-facts.com/2011/06/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlines-a-crisis-that-could-tear-europe-apart/
You would see governments rise and fall; you would see taxes rise and social services cut. You would see faceless European bankers flying in to take over Britain’s economy, and you would see thousands of people take to the barricades, blazing with outrage at their betrayal by the political classes.
This may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But it is precisely what is happening right now in Greece, at the epicentre of what may prove to be one of the most terrifying political and economic crises in our lifetimes.

Riot: Protesters wielding weapons clash with riot police during the general strike against austerity plans that was held on Wednesday

Violent: Left and right wing demonstrators used weapons on each other during a mass fight at Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens

The Battle of Athens may seem an awfully long way away. And when most of us think of Greece, we picture bearded philosophers, island sunsets and welcoming tavernas.