On Sunday, word came that European leaders, led by Germany’s Angela Merkel, had made an ultimatum to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: Hand over your sovereignty or watch your banking system and economy go down the drain.
#Greece: Surrender #fiscal sovereignty in return for bailout, #Merkel tells #Tsiprashttp://t.co/IrLeVqZOlqpic.twitter.com/lOByhuni3L
— Calestous Juma (@calestous) July 12, 2015
Twitter responds swiftly and fiercely.
#ThisIsACoup is trending pic.twitter.com/6LCPlNQ3SS
— Calestous Juma (@calestous) July 12, 2015
The famous and the not so famous agree.
Paul Krugman: “This Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag #ThisIsACoup is exactly right” http://t.co/4rKXVTXoDN
— strelnik (@strelnik) July 12, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis, the recently deposed left-wing Greek finance minister, says pushing Greece out was the plan all along.
.@yanisvaroufakis: How do I know Grexit is an important part of Dr Schäuble’s plan for Europe? Because he told me so! http://t.co/4iMJCKZUhs
— strelnik (@strelnik) July 12, 2015
The new finance minister, Euclide Taskalotos, sums up his feelings about the deal.
— Euclide Tsakalotos (@EuclideTsakalo) July 12, 2015
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