The marble statues of ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, stand in front of the Athens Academy, as the statue of the ancient goddess Athena is seen at right in Athens on Tuesday June 5, 2012. Greece is in a fifth year of recession, with poverty and unemployment rapidly rising amid protracted harsh cutbacks implemented to secure vital international bailout loans. But political uncertainty ahead of new elections on June 17 has intensified fears that the country could be forced to abandon the euro and revert to a devalued version of its old drachma currency. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)