BBC's self-confessed Euro sceptic Michael Portillo visits debt-stricken Greece where he documents a great documentary about the current debt crisis. Portillo's show, which was broadcasted on May 14 on the BBC, believes that the euro crisis must have shaken the Greeks' faith in Europe's single currency and wonders if there will be a desire to revert to the free-floating drachma. In Athens he meets a destitute young family as well as speaks with a former finance minister and then has a tet-a-tet with outgoing Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, and is surprised by some of their answers. He then travels to Germany and encounters the taxpayers who are paying most towards Greece's mammoth financial bailout while having to watch angry Athenians burning the German flag.
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party politician and Cabinet Minister. Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Euro sceptic, From 2002 onwards, Portillo has developed an active career in media, both as a commentator on public affairs and as a writer and/or presenter of TV and radio documentaries. From 2009 and until early 2011 he made 45 half hour programmes for “Great British Railway Journeys” on the BBC2.
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