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Let Greece go, says Germany’s Bild
Germany’s top-selling daily Bild called for Greece’s exit from the eurozone in an editorial Monday, just ahead of an emergency summit where EU leaders will try to find ways to avoid “Grexit.” The...
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Greece overwhelmingly rejected demands for greater austerity. Follow what happens next live on POLITICO.
View ArticleGermany’s Steinmeier visits Cuba
Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be in Cuba Thursday and Friday on the first visit to the island by a German foreign minister since German reunification in 1990, his office said. Following U.S. President...
View ArticleTop euro banknote security firm faces Brazil probe
A Swiss company that plays a central part in the printing of banknotes in Greece and other parts of Europe has been caught up in a corruption scandal in Brazil over the renewal of contracts worth €1.7...
View ArticleTurkish airstrikes in Syria, Iraq
Turkey launched airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, targeting positions of the Islamic State on Friday and expanding to Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq by Saturday, the Turkish government announced....
View ArticleVaroufakis’ plot to bring back drachma
Former Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis devised a plan to enable Greece to return to the drachma. The plan involved raiding the central bank’s reserves and...
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Tsipras challenges rebels to bailout ballot
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras challenged rebels in his Syriza party who oppose the bailout deal he struck with the country’s creditors to submit to a ballot among party members that could be held...
View ArticleVaroufakis: Schäuble will bring troika to Paris
Yanis Varoukafis, the former Greek finance minister, told a Spanish newspaper that his nemesis Wolfgang Schäuble will not stop until he has imposed “troika” inspectors now working in Athens on Madrid,...
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Hungry like the Wolfgang
Wolfgang Schäuble is notorious for imposing tough conditions on spendthrift eurozone countries in return for financial aid, and he made constant news during the Greek bailout talks and in the...
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Treason probe costs German prosecutor job
Germany’s justice minister has fired the country’s top public prosecutor Harald Range over a controversial investigation for treason against two journalists who published secret government documents...
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