2015-07-12theguardian.com

``The eurozone's fiscal hawks, led by Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, the Finns and the Slovaks, rejected new austerity measures conceded by Alexis Tsipras, the leftist Greek prime minister, and for the first time pushed openly for Greece to be allowed to collapse financially and ejected from the single currency... Timo Soini, the nationalist True Finns leader, meanwhile, threatened to bring down the government in Helsinki if Stubb agreed to a new bailout for Greece... Berlin also demanded stronger and more intrusive powers for outside monitors to police the economic and fiscal reforms that Alexis Tsipras, the leftist Greek prime minister, would need to commit to to secure the new bailout.''



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