one of the most laziest nationalities in euro zone... same southerners syndrom, money without work.
Have you ever been to Greece? I have, and I've seen plenty of people working their asses off. Calling all Greeks lazy is short sighted and untrue. The problems of Greece are corruption, socialism, a culture of tax evasion, lack of a decent industry sector, the Euro, and currently austerity. So yes, Greece has plenty of problems, but I wouldn't list overall laziness.
Calling Greeks for "lazy" is the official Northern European MSM doctrine to justify why the industries in Greece (and other PIGS countries - just look up, who coined up this term) went belly up and why their agriculture was uprooted (hint: it happened shortly after joining EU, and IMF was involved in the plunder).
Just watch these episodes:
"Alex": A story about Greece's international image crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehsxIjeRaME"Alex" episode 2: The Lazy Greek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad0n-eX_cYIYou say the Greeks are courting a Russian bailout? My guess is the Bear is in no position to bail out anybody. When times get tough go to war - it's a simple solution to unemployment especially in the defense economy sector.
Maybe someday after petroleum is all pumped and burned, the EU will become a de facto satellite of Russia or freeze. Not going to see a trans-Atlantic natural gas pipeline anytime soon.
Russia is actually in quite a good position to bail out friendly states. It has good financial reserve, and small, relative to its GDP, foreign debt. The main question here: should it? None of the previous cases of Russian/Soviet generosity in economic support were appreciated or beneficial for Russia.