Traynor, Ian, (2015), “Three days to save the euro”, The Guardian, 22 October
Late on the afternoon of Friday 10 July, as European finance ministers were packing their bags for Brussels to attend yet another meeting on the Greek debt crisis, a shocking email from Berlin landed in the inboxes of a very small number of top officials. Earlier that week, the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, had been given an ultimatum by his fellow European leaders: deliver a radical new blueprint for economic reform and spending cuts – or face bankruptcy.
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- Thimann, Christian, (2015), “The Microeconomic Dimensions of the Eurozone Crisis and Why European Politics Cannot Solve Them”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Issue 3, Volume 29, summer