The Greek Plan for Growth and Recovery: Documents Ignored by the EU

"Or was it because our proposals’ substance made it hard for them to admit that the real reason they refused to engage with our sensible, sophisticated proposals was that they only cared about humiliating our government and derailing the negotiations?"

It's hard to see how the EU as a whole could benefit from 'humiliating' the Greek government, rather than debtors having any chance at all of recovering the huge sums owed by Greece.