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Europe Weekly: Greece seeks third bailout

In this edition of Europe Weekly, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asks international creditors for a third bailout – despite 61 percent of those

Greece

Bailout crisis: 'We Greeks are confused':

On the frontline of Greece’s debt disaster, pensioners and other ordinary citizens continued to queue on Friday at closed banks where cash

Greece

Greek parliament to vote on Tsipras' last-ditch bailout plan

Greek MPs and eurozone finance ministers are due to consider the prime minister's proposals to stave off bankruptcy, which are thought to give in to many creditors' demands.

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Watch Live: EU news conference on Greece

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, and Jean-Claude Junker, president of the European Commission, give an update on talks with Greece.

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Greece

Greece: optimism and pessimism jostle for place

While the politicians talk, life for ordinary Greek citizens gets more challenging by the day. Queues at cash machines are the new reality on the

World News

Tsipras puts together new reform plan, but will it be enough to avoid euro exit?

Greek PM puts final touches on new reform plan to win urgently needed bailout cash

Economy

Greek PM cobbles together new reform plan; ATMs only have cash until Monday

Athens has until Friday to deliver new proposals to try to unblock more bailout cash from European creditors

Economy

Anxious time for Greek residents and businesses with banks still closed

Greek banks are still closed and limits on cash withdrawals remain in place

Greece

Greece formally requests 3-year loan from ESM bailout fund

Greece has formally requested a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund that would be used “to meet Greece’s debt

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LIVE from Brussels: Special EU Summit on Greek crisis

LIVE from Brussels: Special EU Summit on Greek crisis

Netherlands

Dutch PM to Greece: only way to keep the euro is deep reform

There is a warning to Greece from the prime minister of The Netherlands: the only way to keep the euro is to accept deep reforms. Mark Rutte made the

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Euclid Tsakalotos sworn in as new Greek finance minister

Euclid Tsakalotos has been sworn in as Greece’s new finance minister after Yanis Varoufakis resigned. Analysts say the 55-year-old, who speaks Greek

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Many Greek businesses struggling to pay state taxes

Many Greek businesses are struggling: capital controls and two weeks of bank holidays means they have insufficient revenue to pay state taxes. They

Greece

"Ball is in Athens' court" says Germany following Greek vote

As supporters of the “No” vote gathered in central Athens in celebration, reaction came in from Greece’s eurozone partners, in particular Germany

Greece

Greece votes 'No' in overwhelming rejection of bailout proposals

Greece seems to have decisively rejected the bailout terms put forward by its international creditors. The Greek people have voted an overwhelming

Greece

The Corinth Canal: a metaphor for the feeling of division in Greece?

The Corinth Canal, a stretch of water dividing the Greek mainland, could serve as a metaphor for the feeling of division within the country it cuts

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Greek finance minister accuses creditors of "terrorism"

Economy

Greece: polls open in knife-edge referendum

With campaigning over, Greece enters the final countdown to a vote which could determine its future in Europe.

Greece

Greece: clashes before referendum 'no' rally

Clashes broke out between youths and police around Syntagma Square in Athens on Friday. The violence took place just before the start of the ‘no’

Greece

Tsipras tells 'no' voters to turn against those who 'terrorise you'

Athens’ Syntagma Square was packed full of ‘no’ supporters on Friday evening ahead of Sunday’s crunch referendum, meant to decide Greece’s future