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What Angela Merkel does next will define the future of Europe

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imagePhone a friend?Julian Stratenchulte/EPA

In the week before the Greek referendum, leading German tabloid BILD conducted its own referendum on what should happen to Greece. The question: “Should we support Greece with further taxpayers’ billions?”, pointed out that Germany had already poured €88 billion down the Greek sinkhole....

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Lessons from Greece as controversial finance minister exits stage left

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imageVaroufakis said he resigned to help the negotiations.Reuters

Greece’s economy is in ruins. It is hard to imagine how things could have gone worse. Banks closed, no liquidity, very high unemployment, businesses closing down or fleeing the country, and the brain drain is accelerating.

And now the Greek people have voted No in a referendum that...

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