23 Greek and Spanish politics would never be the same again. The crisis had leaped from the financial to the political sphere. But in the spring of 2011 the protests were held at arm’s length by the incumbent governments. What forced a change in policy was not protest, however passionate and imaginative, but the inescapable realization that extend-and-pretend, the “fix” cobbled together in 2010, simply did not work.
