Mourners at a funeral for the bombing victims.
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The government is already under fire for failing to protect Kurds from Islamic State.
How to explain Greece’s bailout puzzle?
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No one seems to really believe the latest bailout plan will work without debt relief. But the only way to get Greece to adopt essential reforms is to pretend it isn’t in the cards.
A Greek tragedy.
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Being poor doesn’t make you a bad parent but families need protective factors to counter the negative ones.
EPA/Karl-Josef Hildenbrand
When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) criticises the European Union’s policies toward Greece as too harsh and threatens not to co-operate, we should pay attention. The IMF, after all, has developed…
Greece takes its medicine.
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One thing is clear: if you need bailing out, your voters no longer matter.
Grecians have made it clear how they feel about Golden Dawn: get out.
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Some, including Greece’s ex-Finance Minister Varoufakis, have warned that the bailout’s austerity will strengthen extremist parties like Golden Dawn. They’re wrong.
A far-right protestor carries a noose through the streets of Prague.
Anti-immigration protesters carried nooses through the streets of Prague as police stood by without acting.
Held by the throat.
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A punitive deal which makes life hard for the Greek people and which sets dangerous precedents for the eurozone.
Will Greece’s asset fund turn into an investing piggy bank or another lost opportunity?
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Greece must sell €50 billion worth of government assets as part of its latest bailout. It could very well go wrong.
Broken halo.
Jens Wolf
Angela Merkel chose domestic politics over foreign policy, and the results could be disastrous.
EPA/Etienne Laurent
Since the 1990s, the EU has been less about social integration and more about neo-liberal values.
Hitting the wall. Greece’s future is still in the balance.
Erik Eskedal
What might feel like a victory this morning for eurozone leaders and lenders has only served to feed a eurosceptic beast.
Under pressure to do a deal: Alexis Tsipras.
EPA/Jerry Lampen
Backed into a corner as the banks reached the brink, the Greek prime minister may have fashioned some sort of success, and the prospect of something approaching debt relief a little down the line.
The memorial in Srebrenica.
EPA/Valdrin Xhemaj
In the run up to the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, nationalists are fuelling divisions.
Greek"No" supporters celebrate referendum results.
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The media predictions are dire, but the reality of the Greek monetary crisis may be less sensational.
Greece’s gross domestic product, shown here in 2010 constant dollars, has plunged since 2008.
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On Sunday, the citizens of Greece voted No on the country’s referendum to accept a package of money in exchange for further austerity measures. Now what? Every armchair economist from Iowa to the Aegean…
Standing in line.
EPA/Alexandros Vlachos
Greek banks are running out of options, as cash reserves dwindle in lieu of more ECB emergency funding.
Phone a friend?
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Angela Merkel is in a tight spot, and her usual tactics won’t work.
Celebrations in full swing after the No vote.
EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
The referendum is a victory against the political class that has driven Greece to the brink, and the eurocrats who refused to help.
Syriza’s successful Oxi (No) campaign was a symbolic victory that will have little lasting impact.
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Heralded and mourned as historic, the so-called Greferendum was more about the survival of the Greek government and Syriza than anything else.