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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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
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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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
Gaza child deaths – the view from the shoreline
Today Israel has exonerated its military from any criminal charges relating to the action. It says they were playing in a “compound” clearly identified…
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Paul Mason
Ethical drift: City to break with Jack Sparrow doctrine?
In “Pirates of Canary Wharf” that went on for years. It was un-ethical behaviour that “became the norm” – Mark Carney will say tonight.
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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.
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Paul Mason
Greece: a clod of earth worth saving?
There may be a technical get-out clause that allows Greece to wrap its four repayment dates to the IMF this month into one, but the IMF’s own assessment is correct: Greece can’t pay.
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Paul Mason
Fifa arrests: why they’ll worry big corporations
When US prosecutors say Fifa’s execs have “corrupted global football”, that will ring alarm bells in every global brand associated with football.
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Paul Mason
Greece: Europe’s last-ditch effort to keep it in euro?
After a weekend of leak and counter-leak, today has seen another dramatic development: the leak to a newspaper of the European Commission’s proposal to break the Greece logjam.