Varoufakis: 6 short reasons Greece should vote ‘No’ on Sunday
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras earlier today encouraged Greeks to vote “No.” Reuters also reported that public opinion is already skewing in that direction. And […]
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Tsipras: Referendum not about whether we stay or leave the euro
ANA-MPA — Sunday’s referendum is not about whether Greece will stay or leave the euro, Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a televised address […]
Europe just wants to punish Greece
(Bloomberg – Clive Crook) — In my more than 30 years writing about politics and economics, I have never before witnessed such an episode of […]
Austerity not enough to save Greece – leaked IMF documents
(RT) — Even if Greece accepted all of the austerity measures demanded by its main creditors, the Troika, it still would not be able to […]
Schaeuble: Greece can stay in euro even with ‘no’ vote
(Bloomberg) — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told lawmakers in Berlin that Greece would stay in the euro for the time being if Greek voters […]
IMF on the hook for Greece
(Reuters) — By its own admission the IMF broke many of its rules in lending to Greece. It ended up endorsing austerity measures proposed by […]
The key points of Greek bank controls
Early on Monday morning, the Greek prime minister, Alex Tsipras, published a decree in the official government gazette setting out the capital controls to be […]
ECB maintains emergency funding but doesn’t raise it
It’s official, the European Central Bank has decided to maintain the emergency liquidity support on offer to Greece, but it has also not provided any […]
The Telegraph: There’s method in Greece’s madness – it could pay off
(The Telegraph) — “In the upper reaches of the Euro elite, where leaders are forever driving up to summit meetings in shiny German cars and […]
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls: ECB should keep supporting Greek banks
The European Central Bank’s governing council is to hold an emergency conference call today, to decide whether to continue to give billions of euro to […]
63% of Greeks are not afraid of Grexit
(enikos.gr) — According to a new poll conducted by the site bridgingeurope 63% of the Greek people do not afraid Greece’s exit from the Eurozone […]
Paul Mason: why its likely Greece will vote no
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has called a referendum on 5 July. This after spending most of the week locked in discussions with creditors, in which […]
Greece will survive, but will the euro or the EU?
(MarketWatch/Darrell Delamaide) — Whatever happens with the bailout talks, the one certain thing is that Greece will survive, in or outside the eurozone. One of […]
Creditors draw up emergency measures in case of Greek default
From the Guardian) — Eurozone finance ministers and Greece’s creditors are to draw up emergency measures on Saturday to cope with a default by the […]
Bloomberg: Why it won’t be a default if Greece misses IMF payment
(Bloomberg, enikos.gr) — If Greece fails to pay the $1.7 billion it owes the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, it might be worse for the […]