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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ statement following the conclusion of the Eurozone Summit We have been fighting hard for six months now, and we fought until the end to achieve the best possible outcome, an agreement that will enable the country to get back on its feet, and for the Greek people to be able to…
Photo Euclid Tsakalotos, Greece’s new finance minister with Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, at the eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Sunday. Credit Francois Lenoir/Reuters BRUSSELS — European leaders demanded that Greece make new concessions and quickly adopt a host of economic policy changes as they worked into Monday morning…
ATHENS—Europe’s ultimatum to Greece, demanding full capitulation as the price of any new bailout, marks the failure of a rebellion by a small, debt-ridden country against its lenders’ austerity policies, after Germany flexed its muscles and offered Athens a choice between obeisance or destruction. Sunday’s statement on Greece by eurozone finance ministers will go down…
Angela, what’s the German word for getting kicked out of the euro? (Tobias Schwartz/AFP/Getty Images) Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace. In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process….
The absence of a deal would, in our view, begin the path to Grexit. In that case, the press conference will probably be dominated by the ECB’s role in handling the situation. On the ECB’s specific role in a Grexit scenario, Mr Draghi said this week that if no deal is struck this weekend, the…
European leaders have confronted the Greek government with a draconian package of austerity measures entailing a surrender of fiscal sovereignty as the price of avoiding financial collapse and being ejected from the single currency bloc. A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night at a summit of…
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro. Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This…
ATHENS The leader of Greece’s main opposition party, New Democracy said on Friday it would back attempts by the government to seal a deal with international creditors to stave off financial meltdown. “We want an agreement by Sunday for Greece to stay in Europe. We will authorize the Prime Minister to negotiate and come back…
You always hear about hackers stealing information from credit card companies but what if instead of stealing it they destroyed it? How come you never hear about hackers trying to completely eliminate some valuable data? I’m sure what with backups and bytes zapping all over the globe constantly it would be pretty hard. Much harder…
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Gan Golan of Los Angeles, dressed as the “Master of Degrees,” holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt during Occupy DC activities in (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Getting an advanced degree doesn’t come cheap, which is why graduate students carry nearly half of all student debt. But it turns out that a…