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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Greece dominates at least 87 meetings of European ministers since 2010

Extensive Guardian analysis of eurozone meetings shows ministers spent a lot of the last five years talking about cash-strapped countryAt least 87* separate EU summits and meetings have been partly or entirely devoted to Greece and its financial crisis over the past five years, for only fitful progress on resolving the basic issue, a Guardian analysis reveals. With European finance ministers meeting once again in Brussels on Saturday to discuss the Greek debt crisis, scrutiny of European commission documents and archive news reports has found nearly 90 separate days where EU heads of government or finance ministers met to agonise over the debt crisis or chew over various bail-out and reform plans. Continue reading...


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