ATHENS – Public-sector workers took over government buildings and transit workers prepared to walk off the job Wednesday on a day when the European Union reached a deal to expand a bailout fund to prevent Greece from going bankrupt.
"I think the politicians are starting to slowly understand what the stakes are but whatever they're doing is almost already obsolete," said poet Tilemachos Tsardakas, 33, in reaction to the news that Slovakia agreed to cast the final vote needed for the bailout.
