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Live – Greek crisis negotiations
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flew to Brussels on Wednesday morning to try to salvage a bailout deal amid increasing signs of unease among his nation's creditors over the compromise offer he...
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Live – Greece crisis negotiations
After another day of negotiations the Greek government has failed to reach an agreement with its bailout monitors - the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central...
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For all their ideological differences, austerity-loving UK chancellor George Osbourne and his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis share one political imperative: sparing pensioners and older workers...
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Live – Greece imposes capital controls
Global equities, the euro and German Bund yields are all sharply lower as markets react to the imposition of capital controls in Greece. Greek banks are closed this morning, triggering long queues at...
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Angela Merkel is taking her revenge on Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras by insisting there can be no more talks on the country’s debt crisis until after its referendum on the bailout on Sunday...
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Live – Greece votes no, what next?
After delivering a decisive No vote in Sunday's referendum, in which voters backed Athens’ call to reject a compromise with international creditors, Greece is facing the prospect of even greater...
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July 2015 will go down in history as a continuation of hell for Greece, whose leftwing government has brought catastrophe to the nation, argues Tony Barber The beginning of the end for Yanis...
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Live — Greece enters crunch talks in Brussels
After the overwhelming No vote, the focus today is back on Greece's negotiations with Brussels, culminating in Alexis Tsipras's government being given a final chance by eurozone leaders to present new...
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Live – Countdown begins for Greece
With the clock ticking towards Sunday and an emergency summit of all 28 EU members, Greece has only days to reach an agreement with its creditors or face bankruptcy. All eyes on Wednesday will be on...
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Live – Greece: the final countdown
Late on Thursday night Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras submitted a new plan for his country's economic overhaul to bailout monitors. The clock is now ticking. Will it be accepted, or, come Sunday,...
View ArticleSmart Reads 13 July 2015
Scott Walker, the “regular Joe” governor of Wisconsin and Republican presidential hopeful, needs to shrug off concerns that he is a foreign policy lightweight in his run for the White House Young...
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Amid the political noise, the historic nuclear deal between Iran and international powers is a victory for pragmatism in Tehran, writes Roula Khalaf Greece’s creditors have destroyed the eurozone as...
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Tsipras is master of all he surveys in Greece
Once again, it was an agonisingly long piece of Greek parliamentary theatre. But once again, in the early hours of Thursday morning, Alexis Tsipras came out on top. For the second time in a week, the...
View ArticleSmart Reads 28 July 2015
Behind Turkey’s volte-face on Isis, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fishing for nationalist votes by tarring as terrorists the pro-Kurdish coalition, argues David Gardner Something is rotten with the...
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