STEVE INSKEEP, Host: Europe's latest financial trouble is at the top of NPR's business news.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: From Athens, Joanna Kakissis reports.</s>JOANNA KAKISSIS: The We Won't Pay movement is growing, and it encourages Greeks to ignore all rules, says Aristides Hatzis, a law professor at the University of Athens who says Greeks have a history of avoiding taxes.</s>ARISTIDES HATZIS: Sixty percent, 60 percent of Greeks do not pay taxes. Of course, someone is going to pay for this - for the tolls, for the taxes, for the deficit, for everything.</s>JOANNA KAKISSIS: Hatzis says Greeks don't pay taxes because they don't trust their institutions.</s>ARISTIDES HATZIS: The people in many situations feel that they have the right to break the law.</s>JOANNA KAKISSIS: For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Athens.
The economic collapse of Greece was precipitated by the countries massive national debt, caused in part by Greeks not paying their taxes. Now there's a growing protest movement against the government's austerity measures.