Wow the amount of ignorance in this comment is staggering. Many countries have deficits for decades. Greece’s debt ballooned once we entered the Eurozone. From the hundreds of billions given as loans less than 20% went to our economy. Most were used to bailout EU banks, namely French and German ones. Greece never lived up to the agreement? Then how on earth did our GDP fall by 30% in five years? How come unemployment in young people reached 50% if we did nothing of what was agreed?

The reason we rejected the last bailout was because it didn’t include any terms of debt relief which is the only way for the economy to recover. That and Tsipra’s incompetence paired by an equal amount of incompetence and lies from EU officials. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.

I’m not surprised that you are from Germany (I guess you read Bild a lot). Well I’m Greek and I have news for you. In 1954 we wrote off 50% of your debt to us. And we did it despite the fact that ten years ago you’ve invaded our country and wrecked havoc doing monstrosities like murdering whole villages including kids. We did out of solidarity to help your economy grow. It’s time now you do the same. It’s either that or we default and you can kiss your 70 bn loans goodbye. And then you can return to your miserable Mark because Euro will collapse sooner or later.