Α Greek government source has taken offense to the Economist for last week’s witty cover page, which showed the iconic Venus de Milo with a new-found limb that brandishes a … pistol. A caption read: “Go ahead, Angela, make my day!”
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“It’s completely obnoxious and ridiculous to suggest we could blackmail Europe,” the official told reporters.

This isn’t the first time that the statue of Aphrodite has been used to skewer the Greek economic crisis. In 2011, Germany’s Focus depicted the statue making a distinctly obscene middle-finger gesture with the caption, “A cheat in the euro family”. Legal action was taken at the time, to no avail, against 13 German journalists deemed responsible for the cover.