What's broken in Greece? Ask an entrepreneur

KOMOTINI, Greece - Demetri Politopoulos says he has suffered countless indignities in his 12-year battle to build a microbrewery and wrest a sliver of the Greek beer market from the Dutch colossus, Heineken.

His tires have been slashed and his products vandalized by unknown parties, he says, and his brewery has received threatening phone calls.

Bad as all that has been, nothing prepared him for this reality: He would be breaking the law if he tried to fulfill his latest entrepreneurial dream: to have his brewery produce and export bottles of a beverage made from herbal tea.