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60 migrants have been rescued from the sea near Libya by a Spanish aid boat – after they were spotted in a patched up rubber dinghy. But Italy’s hard line interior minister immediately declared he’d refuse permission for them to land there – saying “they can forget about arriving in an Italian port”. A hundred…
It’s one of Europe’s most protracted disputes. An island divided for more than 40 years.
Channel 4 News speaks to Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Stanford University and to economist and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis about Trump’s promises to the “forgotten” American people.
Thousands of people are still attempting the treacherous journey by sea from Turkey to Greece every day. A Turkish coastguard tries to turn the dinghies back before they get to Greece – leading to some confrontations in the water.
It was the unswayability of the left vote that put Alexis Tsipras straight back into the prime ministerial mansion he resigned from a month ago, calling a snap election.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
A British tourist helping refugees on a beach in Lesbos says of the debate in the UK: “If only they heard the stories.. Germany has put us to shame.”
Jon Snow
I am amazed to find that a previous regime here decided to enrol every single priest as a civil servant and pay them as such – together with their pensions.
The levels of economic pain and dysfunctional borrowing set to be inflicted on Greece mean that at some point public opinion will flip.
Alex Thomson
Juncker and Merkel saying early today they are confident Athens will do as it is told and as its own leader has negotiated, but the scale of the Greek PM’s U-turn remains breath-taking.
There is now the basis of a deal to keep Greece in the eurozone – but it involves the crushing of a government elected on a landslide and the flouting of a referendum.
Alex Thomson
“The most important currency has been lost,” remarked a rueful Angela Merkel on her way into the Eurozone talks today, “and that is trust.”
Alex Thomson
It is every bit as much about trust as about economics now. Of course, this being Brussels and this being the EU, nobody would ever use a word as straightforward as “trust”.
The Greeks arrived with a set of proposals widely scorned as “more austere than the ones they rejected”. The internet burst forth with catcalls – “they’ve caved in”.
The new Greek government proposals, published late last night are clearly based on those submitted by Jean Claude Juncker last Thursday, before the referendum. Many Greeks are frustrated, asking: what was the point of the referendum? It’s left many foreign observers saying the same.