Paul Mason
Greece crisis: upper middle class vs rural pensioners
Last night’s ‘Yes’ campaign demo was big – I would say maybe a quarter bigger than the ‘No’ demo of Monday, and with a much more angry atmosphere.
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Matt Frei
After Greece, can the EU remain the world’s most popular club?
Greece may only represent a fraction of Europe’s economy. But in everything else that can’t be easily measured by the IMF or ECB, it represents to much more.
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Paul Mason
Greece referendum: did the euro just die at 4pm?
While the far left government will pose the referendum as a vote for or against austerity, the right will say it’s an in-out vote for the single currency and the EU itself.
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Paul Mason
Tsipras goes for referendum on 5 July
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has just called a referendum on 5 July. This after spending most of the week locked in discussions with creditors…
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Gary Gibbon
Alexis Tsipras has his homework thrown back at him by IMF
The IMF like their emergency economic plans from debtor countries pretty heavy on the spending cuts, light on the tax rises. The Tsipras plan was the very opposite.
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Paul Mason
Greece: a deal nobody believes in
While the proposal has caused outrage among the Greek conservatives and outrage among Syriza’s left-wing voters, the real problem is bigger.
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Paul Mason
Greece: could debt deal be scuppered from above?
The level of pressure that’s being exerted on Syriza right now, I don’t think is enough to derail a deal from below.
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Paul Mason
Why the words ‘civil war’ are no longer a joke in Greece
If today’s Brussels talks fail, the Greek debt crisis could stop being a story about economics and become one of civil society, politics and the rule of law.
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Paul Mason
Greece – five pictures of a troubled country
Ahead of a crucial meeting on the Greece debt crisis on Monday, Paul Mason presents a special long-read, offering five pictures of the country.
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Paul Mason
Greek crisis: crunch time
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
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Greece crisis: one month to Grexit?
It is crunch time for Greece. If it fails to pay its debts it could be forced to leave the euro and the EU, and plunge into the unknown. These are the key dates as we approach possible Grexit.
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Paul Mason
Deal or turmoil: a guide to what’s happening in Greece
With negotiations between Greece and its lenders stalled, but the differences amounting to around 0.6 per cent of Greek GDP, the stage is set for either a last-minute deal or a breakdown.
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Paul Mason
Greek eurozone crisis: is time running out for Syriza?
The Greek crisis ramped up a gear last night when, at the start of supposed “last chance” talks in Brussels, EU negotiators told the Greek delegation that “negotiations were over”.
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Paul Mason
Greece: will Alexis Tsipras wave a writ at Europe?
While Tsipras, Varoufakis and their negotiators have been trying to get the country’s debt reduced via the IMF and ECB, Zoe Konstantopoulou has been working to get it declared invalid.
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Paul Mason
Greece debt crisis: the unsustainable ultimatum
They came, they saw, they had – as one Syriza MP put it to me last night – “their balls handed to them”. For all the smiling and calm displayed by Alexis Tsipras, the Greeks know they came off the worst.
