Greece leaves the Euro rescue program

[Jimbuna]

Greece may still be Europe’s sick patient, but the EU is at death’s door.

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In Germany — which for many Greeks came to epitomise an obsession with austerity as a solution to the country’s woes — the end of the programme was welcomed by the government as proof that the years of financial aid had worked.

“Greece’s salvation is also a sign of European solidarity,” Olaf Scholz, Germany’s centre-left finance minister, told Handelsblatt newspaper. “The conclusion of the Greece programme is a success. The bleak predictions of the prophets of doom have not come true.”

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