Greek Referendum on IMF/Troika deal

[Middle-aged Europe]

BILD went off the deep end and turned fully nationalist now.



"No new billions for Greece - Today we need the Iron Chancellor"

[Middle-aged Europe]

This guy reads the riot act to Tsipras, starring him in the eye. Tsipras seemed rather entertained by it all. We need a Constitutional amendment right now to make Verhofstadt eligible to be POTUS. We need him far more than Belgium does.

Stark!

America isn't going to elect a president who looks like Harry Potter.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Actually, the German government seems to be somewhat representative for the European Union as a whole at this point. The CDU is close to open rebellion against their own leadership, if measures against Greece happen to be too soft, while a harsher stance against the Greek government leads to much criticism within the SPD against their party leadership.

The bottomline is, after some discontent within the CDU, Merkel decided to let Schäuble off the leash to calm things down, which let Schäuble propose the temporary Grexit idea. At the same time, SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel faces a lot of heat from within his own party because he's seen way too much in line with the CDU.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Kamnenos said he's had enough, and other Athens sources call the draft humiliating and disastrous.

Even German media - in this case Spiegel Online - calls the Eurogroup's proposal a "deliberate   humiliation of Greece", designed to make an agreement with the Greek government impossible.