‘Last Bluff’ a ‘stunning chronicle’ of make-or-break 2015 Athens-Brussels talks

The presentation of Eleni Varvitsioti and Viktoria Dendrinou's book "The Last Bluff" (published by Papadopoulos) took place on Monday evening in a packed amphitheater at the Benaki Museum annex on Pireos Street, south of central Athens. Kathimerini's executive editor Alexis Papachelas, who coordinated the event, expressed his conviction that the book is significant "because it could lead to the creation of a 'truth commission' to determine what happened in 2015, but also earlier, how we got to bankruptcy."

"Tonight we are talking about Hamlet without the prince," he remarked, prompting laughter from the audience. Presenting the speakers, former Eurogroup Working Group head Thomas Wieser, Financial Times journalist Peter Spiegel and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, Papachelas spoke of "an association of veterans of the Greek crisis."

Varvitsioti described the...