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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

World News

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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Greece

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

Greece

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

Greece

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

Greece

Greece 'yes' voters gather for major rally ahead of bailout vote

Some 20,000 supporters of a “yes” vote gathered in front of the ancient Panathenaic Stadium with banners reading “nai” – Greek for “yes.” Celebrities

Greece

Greek court rejects appeal to block bailout vote

Greece’s highest court has rejected an appeal against a referendum on a bailout package from creditors, clearing the way for the vote to be held as

Greece

Greek PM Tsipras says IMF report supports "no" vote

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has repeated his call for people to vote no in Sunday’s bailout referendum. In a televised address he said

World

Greek society near paralysed by bank freeze

On the last weekend of June the Greek government announced a referendum. The choices: accept lenders’ continuing austerity conditions on another

Europe News

Half of Greek bailout money already 'lost', says top Belgian economist

Audrey Tilve, euronews: Paul De Grauwe, you teach at the London School of the Economics and the University of Leuven. You’ve been following the Greek

Greece

Thousands of jobs face axe as cash shortage threatens Greek traders

Capital controls on Greece’s banking sector are starting to squeeze business in more ways than one. There is now a dramatic shortage of cash on the

Economy

Tsipras keeps options open ahead of Greece bailout vote

As Greece heads to a referendum this Sunday (July 5) on the country’s bailout terms opinion polls contradict each other. One gives the “yes”