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Greek referendum — the right step at a dangerously wrong time
For the past 48 hours, the rest of Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world have watched Greece come unhinged. In a speech shortly after midnight Friday night, prime minister Alexis Tspiras...
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Is this ballot for real?
You can’t make this up. I’m surprised the “Yes” vote isn’t in 6-point font.
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IMF report backs up Tsipras in Greek referendum
Did the International Monetary Fund’s latest proposal just basically admit Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras is right? Greece needs, under still-optimistic growth projections, at least € 50 billion...
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If Grexit comes, Greece will have wasted five years in depression
Photo credit to Orestis Panagiotou / EPA. If you think the past nine days have been tense, just wait. For all the uncertainty and mistrust that have characterized Greek-EU relations since Greek prime...
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Three ways Europe and Greece could blow their last chance at a debt deal
Photo credit to EPA/BGNES. The world woke up to the news Monday morning that outspoken Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had, at long lost, been dismissed by his prime minister, Alexis Tsipras....
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A Twitterstorm on the political fallout from the Greek deal
A quick rundown of where Greece and Europe stand in the wake of today’s early-morning deal: 1 Temporary Grexit plan seriously devalued long-term stability of eurozone and EU leaders will regret at next...
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Both Greece, Turkey could be headed for snap elections
August may be among the most quiet periods of the year for world politics, especially in Europe as workers spend weeks away on holiday. But events earlier this week made it very likely that two...
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Greece to vote in September snap elections
Ballot-worn and crisis-weary Greeks will go to the polls for the third time in nine months in what amounts to a fresh referendum on the country’s third European bailout. Facing a growing insurgency in...
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Why this weekend’s election in Greece doesn’t really matter
Photo credit to International Balkan News Agency. In the televised debate earlier this week, Greece’s recent prime minister Alexis Tsipras dismissed the idea of a grand coalition as ‘unnatural,’...
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Greek election results: Tsipras and streamlined SYRIZA return to power
Alexis Tspiras’s victory in Sunday’s snap elections in Greece is reminiscent of Richard Wagner’s four-opera marathon Ring cycle — at the end of hours of drama, the ring ends up more or less right...
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