Στο Χιλιοστό — Season 1, Episode 2: Where is the Money?
Documentary • 52 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Where is the money? What happens when a new government takes power and discovers that the state could run out of money within a few days? We enter the first, crucial days of the SYRIZA-ANEL government in 2015 - at a time when pre-election promises clash with the harsh reality of public finances. At the General State Accounting Office, the picture is shocking. The State's available funds are not sufficient for the upcoming obligations with only 1.6 billion euros in cash and multiple payments ahead of it. "It was a terror," recalls the then General Director of Budget and Fiscal Policy, Stavroula Miliakou, describing the moment when the possibility of salaries and pensions not being paid ceases to be a theoretical scenario and becomes an immediate threat. With rare archival material, revealing interviews and intense narrative tension, the second episode records the first moments when the Greek government is faced with reality. Because when the treasury is empty, every decision counts.
About Στο Χιλιοστό
“At the Millimeter”: a six-episode documentary series, by Eleni Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou, journalists and authors of the best-selling “The Last Bluff”. The dramatic events of 2015 come to life again and the moment when Greece came within a breath of leaving the euro unfolds through exclusive interviews and rare unpublished archival material. With unique access to the people who made the decisions, “At the Millimeter” opens the closed doors of power. From Athens and Brussels, to Berlin and Washington, dozens of protagonists speak without filters and without second thoughts. What really happened? How close did we come to collapse? What mistakes were made?