Uncovering the profound effects that pension and health care reforms have had in post-crisis Greece

Pension and health care reforms introduced in Greece following the 2009 crisis, and the bail out agreements signed with the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have attracted attention because of the significant cuts they entailed. Drawing on recent research, Marina Angelaki writes that focusing exclusively on retrenchment gives only part of the picture as it masks other transformative processes with long-term effects that have taken place in both systems over this period.