Paul Mason
The Greek crisis: on the ground and on Twitter
Last night I responded sharply to an anonymous Greek troll known as @GreekAnalyst, comparing his right-wing network of abusive and unaccountable people…
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Jonathan Rugman
Greece's rebellion will only harden Germany's approach
If Angela Merkel has her way, the euphoria in Athens about Sunday’s referendum result will prove short lived. There is a discernible hardening of attitudes in Berlin.
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Matt Frei
Merkel’s dilemma: give in to Greece or stand firm against democracy
Berlin had calculated that the Greek people would come to their senses and vote yes. The opposite happened – and Chancellor Merkel must now untangle a Gordian knot of a problem.
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Paul Mason
Yanis Varoufakis: the economist who wouldn’t play politics
Why did Varoufakis go? The official reason, on his blog, was pressure from creditors. But there are a whole host of other reasons that made it easier for him to decide to yield to it.
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Paul Mason
Is Greece about to call the EU’s bluff?
The EU leadership told Greeks a No meant exit from the eurozone. The Greek government said they were bluffing. We’ll find out who’s right soon.
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Greece: official projection gives victory to No camp
Provisional results suggest at least 61 per cent of Greeks have voted against the terms of the bailout deal offered by the country’s creditors
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Paul Mason
Greece crisis: a failure of economics in the face of politics
The IMF’s report yesterday got swamped amid the gloom, despondency and fractiousness of the Greek crisis. It said, in short, Greece’s debt has become unsustainable.
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Paul Mason
Greece debt crisis: Tsipras prepares for compromise deal
Alexis Tsipras is getting ready to stage a climbdown and he will tell the people of Greece he’s about to accept something very very similar to the conditional bailout he rejected.
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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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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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Gary Gibbon
EU renegotiation: what next and who matters
If David Cameron demands a lot of time from leaders at this week’s EU summit, he risks looking like someone knocking on the door asking for milk when the neighbours’ house is on fire.
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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.
