When we talk about the shortcomings of Greece we should not forget that Greece was under military dictatorship up until the middle of the 70's (as were Spain and Portugal). And there were several terrorist bombings afterwards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_N... just to name one of many groups).

As a German I'm getting tired of painting the Greeks as lazy. It's rather their country that's in a mess.