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Italian PM Renzi: Greece and EU partners should restart talks
Italian PM, Matteo Renzi, told Italian daily Il Messaggero on Sunday that talks must resume between Greece and its European partners after the referendum is over regardless of the outcome of the vote.
Schulz: ‘No’ means Grexit for any future bailout deal
European Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German socialist, was quite clear in comments to German radio over the weekend: if a “no” vote wins out in Sunday’s referendum then Greece would have to adopt another currency in any cash-for-reforms deal.
Centrist party leader to Focus: ‘Tsipras must go’
Germany’s Focus magazine hosts statements by centrist party leader Stavros Theodorakis in its latest edition emphasizing that, in no uncertain terms that “Tsipras must go”.
After Tunisia attack, sun-seekers switch to Spain, Bulgaria and Greece
Fearing for their safety in Tunisia after a gunman killed dozens of tourists, sun-seeking Europeans are switching to destinations such as Spain, Bulgaria or even Greece for holidays this year.
Tsipras: Greeks Determined to Take Control of Their Own Destiny in Referendum
Greeks are determined to decide their own destiny in Sunday's bailout referendum, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said after casting his ballot in Athens.
"No one can ignore the will of the people to live, to live with determination, to take its destiny into its own hands," Tsipras said, according to AFP.
Pol leaders vote in Greek referendum
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos voted in the upscale Psychiko district in north-central Athens considered the “diplomatic row” in the Greek capital.
Pavlopoulos, an attorney and veteran politician and minister from the conservative New Democracy party, urged unity in the country regardless of the referendum result.
Greece votes on financial future, government - and maybe euro
Greek voters headed to the polls on July 5 to vote in a historic, tightly fought referendum on whether to accept worsening austerity in exchange for more bailout funds, in a gamble that could see it crash out of the euro.
FinMin says radical left govt has …stockpiled supplies for ‘siege’
“We’re at war!” was the way right-wing Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, the leader of the junior coalition partner in league with Greece’s radical leftists, described the expulsion of a deputy from his party last week who said he’ll vote for “yes” in Sunday’s election.
Greece's Referendum: Where Do 'Yes' and 'No' Votes Lead?
Ten million Greeks have been asked by their left-wing government to vote in Sunday's referendum that poses the biggest challenge to the euro currency since its adoption.
Tight Race Expected at Greece's Bailout Referendum
The outcome of Sunday's referendum in Greece on the bailout proposals made by the country's international lenders is too close to call, opinion polls suggest.
Polling Stations Open in Crucial Bailout Referendum in Greece
Polling stations opened across Greece on Sunday morning in a crunch bailout referendum which could determine the country's place in the eurozone.
Voting started at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) and will close at 7 p.m. (1600 GMT). The first results are expected at about 9 p.m. (18 GMT).
M. Renzi: Italy is no longer Greece’s “companion in misfortune”
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Saturday said his country is no longer a “companion in misfortune” to Greece. “We need to stop calling Italy the sick man of Europe, because it’s no longer true,” he told Italian channel TG5, a day ahead of the referendum which could determine Greece’s future.
Jacques Delors comes up with 3-point soln for Greece
Former European Commission president Jacques Delors wrote an article in French newspaper Le Monde, that is co-signed by former World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy and president of the Jacques Delors Institue, Antonio Vitorino.
Varoufakis: Partners will not abandon Greece
Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, told Reuters that Europe will not abandon Greece. However, the news agency says the rest of Greece’s European partners do seem to totally agree on Varoufakis’s assessment on the their intentions regarding Greece’s fate in the Eurozone.
Study: Saying ‘No’ is a big black hole sucking life out of future!
The announcement of the Referendum to take place on July 5 caused a multinational corporation to study the affects that the ‘no’ vote would have on society and the Greek economy. The company, that wishes to remain anonymous, studied all the repercussions of ‘no’.