'No' vote pushes Greece towards the exit

Following the resounding “No” vote in Greece’s referendum, Europe has given Athens “one last chance" to come up with a credible economic reform plan.

Following the resounding "No" vote in Greece's referendum, Europe has given Athens "one last chance to produce a credible economic reform plan that could underpin a new bailout", says Graeme Wearden in The Guardian. Donald Tusk, the European Council president, described the lead-up to Sunday's summit, which all 28 European leaders will attend, as the "most critical" days in the European Union's history. Failure to secure a deal, he said, would lead to the "bankruptcy of Greece, and painful' consequences for the Greek people, with geopolitical effects across Europe".

Greece's ruling party, Syriza, has "modified its rhetoric" and "shunted aside" its abrasive finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said The Daily Telegraph. But Europe's leaders were "furious" at a lack of Greek proposals at an emergency summit on Tuesday, which the new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, attended with only "bullet points scrawled on hotel notepaper", says Bruno Waterfield in The Times. Greece has until Thursday night to submit "detailed plans for a third bailout", or face "being kicked out of the euro". Whether Tsakalotos's proposals, already "roundly rejected by the EU and International Monetary Fund", were "trickery" or "just muddle", they do little to improve relations between Greece and its creditors, say Kerin Hope, Henry Foy and Peter Spiegel in the FT.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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