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Monday, July 13, 2015

Greek crisis: Tsipras returns to Athens to gather support for bailout deal

Analysts believe Alexis Tsipras could lose power amid the backlash over the deep economic reforms, and asset sales, he agreed to in BrusselsLatest: Greece may head for unity governmentSunday’s liveblog: Greek deal reached after marathon all-night summitAnger against GermanyUK: Implementing deal will be hardTsipras odds-on to quit this yearFT: how talks almost imploded 4.27pm BST The International Monetary Fund has put out a short statement following this morning’s euro summit statement and the weekend crisis talks, attended by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde. Gerry Rice, IMF director of communications says: 4.14pm BST Over in Athens the Greek prime minister has got straight down to business holding an emergency meeting of top officials following the announcement of the deal. Our correspondent Helena Smith reports: Continue reading...


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