George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, is actually fulfilling one of his campaign promises, that of green development. A recently enacted real estate tax to be collected via electricity bills has sent those Greeks with some money left to protect scrambling to install rooftop photovoltaics and wind power generators in an effort to wean themselves from the state-owned power company (which already collects municipal taxes and the state television fee which together comprise about half the quarterly bill). The new tax will add several hundred euros to the average annual power bill and because it is part of the bill the usual Greek response of simply not paying will not work, unless they no longer need power from the mains.
This information is admittedly anecdotal, that is the local installer of such systems telling us that he's never had anywhere near this much work but it rings true. I probably don't know the real situation in Greece any better than you just because I'm in it (I may be missing the forest for the trees) but I can tell you that it is not good.
Landfills are blockaded by strikers so garbage is collecting into sizable hills on city corners. With recent storms soaking these hills and washing stuff away, it is turning from an eyesore into a public health hazard. Mass transit is subject to near daily strikes and tomorrow (for instance) the taxis will also strike. Getting around the city is going to be a nightmare. Customs officials have declared a ten day strike that will affect all imported goods. At the beginning of the week, petroleum distillery workers went on strike and caused lines miles long to form at gas stations.
The government is less popular than Dick Chaney at the end of W's term and have managed to put the opposition New Democracy party, responsible for the immediate mess, and its Amherst educated leader Antonis Samaras (regarded by many as a turncoat for actions in the '90s) eleven points ahead, still however short of an absolute majority if elections were held today. (Though comfortably forming a government with a splinter further right party, LaOS -Popular Orthodox Alarm- which is almost as scary as it sounds)