The pressure to remain well informed is wearing, let’s just admit it, Greece’s economy is another language to many of us.
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European banks are poised to lead stock market declines after Greek voters rejected last-ditch European bailout measures.
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The current confrontation will shape resistance to austerity – and the future of the whole of Europe.
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What should be a financial matter has become a political stick to punish the country.
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Seven years of sacrifices and one austerity measure after another have finally brought the people of Greece to a crossroads.
As solidarity begins to fade in the currency zone, it is clear that permanence was never a guarantee.
ECB president Mario Draghi willingly giving Greece negotiating room while cash drains from the banking system has riled those who had a tougher ride.
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EU officials worked late into the night on Sunday to produce a deal ahead of a summit of leaders that they hope can keep Greece in the currency bloc.
As bank withdrawal limits in Greece plummet, citizens have been thinking up contingency plans for ‘in case’.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sees further pension cuts to low earners as a red line his leftist Syriza party will not cross.
Greece will not be able to pay the International Monetary Fund on June 5 unless foreign lenders disburse more aid to the debt-ridden country.
The newly ruling Greek party has had to back down for now but it is preparing for a fight with serious consequences.
EU paymaster Germany criticised the Greek proposal as "not a substantial solution" as it failed to fulfil bailout conditions.
By lending Greece money, eurozone members bear some responsibility for the plight of the beleaguered country.
Economic decisions by Athens’s leader may push Greeks to vote for the neo-fascist Golden Dawn.
A diplomatic offensive by new Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras to ease bailout aid requirements has been failing to win converts.
The new leaders want to ease the ‘humanitarian crisis’ – but Greece’s creditors are not impressed.
The election result marked a comprehensive rejection of the years of austerity demanded by the EU and IMF in return for the €240-billion bailout.
The tainted old order under Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is up against unencumbered young firebrand Alexis Tsipras.
Failure to elect a new president will pit the ruling Samaras coalition against the popular radical left Syriza party.
Greece has been selling off its historic properties, including near the Acropolis, to settle its massive economic debt.
Members had been trained in Nazi-style hit squads to "attack immigrants for fun".
Golden Dawn is under investigation for the murder of rapper Pavlos Fissas, who bled to death after being stabbed by a party sympathiser last week.
After years of harsh recession, 17-million tourists — an all-time record — are set to visit the mainland and its sun-kissed islands.
Unions in Greece have gone on a strike in protest over the government’s decision to shut down its public broadcaster as part of cost-cutting measures.
An extremist political group, Golden Dawn, plans to establish cells ‘wherever there are Greeks’.
Germany is not just Europe’s biggest economy and the message from the eurozone’s paymaster is simple: if we can do it, so can you.
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Tough-dealing Finland, not Greece, could be the first member to quit the monetary union, writes Josephine Moulds.
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