Greece

A sailboat carrying migrants sank in in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece on July 7 and at least 17 people were missing, Greek authorities said. 

Greece's maritime ministry said Greek and Turkish rescue efforts had saved 16 of the between 33 and 37 migrants believed to be on board when the boat went down between the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Agathonisi. 

British Ambassador to Greece John Kittmer made a statement following the Greek referendum:

“The Greek people expressed a decisive view in Sunday’s referendum at a critical moment in the economic crisis. Greece is a proud nation, an ally for nearly 200 years of shared history, and we respect the decision of its people.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said that confrontation is not the solution to the Greek crisis. “We hope to reconcile the proposals of both sides,” he said during a press conference in Strasbourg.

French PM Manuel Valls said a possible ''Grexit'' would have a massive negative impact over EU economies.

He made the statement in an interview for a French radio station Tuesday.

''France ill do everything so that Greece remains in the Eurozone because that's where it belongs, at the heart of the European project,'' Valls noted.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet with EU leaders on Tuesday in an attempt to pull a camel through the eye of the needle so that Greece can enter the kingdom of normalcy. The Euro Summit at 7 p.m.

Euclid Tsakalotos steps in to pick up the pieces of Greece’s tattered negotiations. He is the polar opposite to Varoufakis, the man who stuck up the middle finger at Berlin, came to blows with the Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem in a Brussels corridor and managed to join the Eurozone together against Greece.

Photos of a Greek pensioner crying in a heap outside a Thessaloniki bank on Friday went viral as they depicted the desperation of pensioners’ plight in Greece, especially since the imposition of capital controls. The identity of the weeping pensioner in the photos was Giorgos Chatzifiotis, aged 77, a Greek who had worked at some point in Germany as an immigrant.

Greece and its eurozone membership face an uncertain future, with time pressing for the country to reach a bailout deal with creditors after Greeks rejected the notion of more austerity in exchange for aid, although European Commission representatives have insistently claimed the opposite. 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has appointed Euclid Tsakalotos as Greece's new finance minister following the resignation of Yanis Varoufakis, according to Greek media reports on Monday.

Reactions continued on Monday afternoon in the wake of the landslide “no” vote a day earlier in the Greek referendum, with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble noting from Warsaw that Yanis Varoufakis’ successor will also have a tough time working out a deal with European creditors.