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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe have "Greekment", as they're calling it. Eurozone 'agreement' on Greece debt.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33503955Greece debt crisis: Eurozone summit 'reaches agreement'
Eurozone leaders reach "agreement" with Greece on new debt deal, Belgian prime minister says, after marathon talks.
Breaking - will update
Update:
A spokesman for the Cypriot government, Nikos Christodoulides, tweeted: "Seems we have a deal."
Details of any agreement were not immediately clear. Eurozone leaders have been meeting in Brussels for more than 16 hours.
Update:
Eurozone leaders have reached a "unanimous" agreement after marathon talks over a third bailout for Greece, EU President Donald Tusk has said.
He tweeted that a bailout programme was "all ready to go" for Greece, "with serious reforms and financial support".
Details of the agreement were not immediately clear. Eurozone leaders have been meeting in Brussels for more than 16 hours.
Greece is expected to pass reforms demanded by the eurozone by Wednesday.
More here:
http://www.france24.com/en/20150713-liveblog-greece-crisis-summit-tsipras-merkel-hollande-schauble
Live: Greek 'compromise' proposed after all-night talks
The leaders of Greece, Germany, France and the EU reached a "compromise" on a bailout deal for Athens at late-night talks on Monday which will now be put to the rest of the eurozone, EU sources say. Follow the latest on our liveblog.
* The leaders of the eurozones 19 members resumed talks at 4am in Brussels on Monday in a last-ditch effort to prevent Greece from being forced out of the single currency.
* Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande and summit chairman Donald Tusk proposed a compromise agreement shortly after negotiations resumed, a European source told AFP.
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We have "Greekment", as they're calling it. Eurozone 'agreement' on Greece debt. (Original Post)
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2015
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joshcryer
(62,276 posts)1. Tsipras blinked.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)2. The ATMs were out of cash
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.and food & medicine were not far behind. The Eurozone exit scenario would have meant short term chaos and (IMO) a coup.
However, Germany can't get too out of hand. I'm sure Putin could choose to be very helpful to Greece.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)4. Very dicey geopolitical moment. Germany knows perfectly well that
a collapsing, Russian-leaning Greece on its southern flank is not in its or the EU's interest.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)5. Yes, he should be ousted even now.
Given that the referendum was against this.
It was going to be bad either way.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)3. Majorly.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)6. Yep. He blinked. One can imagine a few different reasons for it.
None of them pleasant.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)7. Morton’s Fork
Tsipras was between a rock and a hard place.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)8. Rock? or Hard Place? - nowhere else to go.
The mountain sheep is in the same uncomfortable position as the ill-fated Greek people.
Igel
(35,332 posts)9. Scylla and Charybdis. Seems somehow more fitting to use that version of the metaphor. n/t
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)10. Yes, this is indeed an economic Odyssey on a grand scale.