It will take years for my adopted country to get over this crisis. Its people have faced the prospect of overnight impoverishment and wept at the indignityAfter a rollercoaster ride of cliffhanger votes, extraordinary summits and a rhetoric rarely heard beyond the confines of war, the deed, we were told, had finally been done. The prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, Europe’s anti-austerian par excellence, had, at one minute to 12, accepted the deal that would save the country from economic Armageddon.In this thriller of a drama that, among Greeks at least, has involved every family, every home, relief at long last could be the order of the day. A valiant war had been waged, with battles lost and battles won, but now it was almost over. Continue reading...
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