10.08.2015 - 18:18 [ theMonitor ]

German waterboarding delivers doomsday to Greece

After months of deadlines that turned out not to matter and final demands that weren‘t met, the threat of a one-way ticket from the euro seems to have finally persuaded Greece to capitulate to its creditors. For all of France‘s diplomatic scrambling last week to help Greece craft a settlement, it also turned out that there‘s really only one voice that matters in Europe — and it speaks from Berlin.