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EU BOSSES have pulled off a “coup” against Greece, campaigners and MPs warned yesterday after Athens capitulated to privatisation and austerity demands.
The new “bailout” deal forced on the country is more severe even than the terms Greeks overwhelmingly rejected in July 5’s referendum. Greece’s parliament has been given until the end of tomorrow to pass legislation enshrining the crippling “agreement” in law.
“The oldest democracy in the world has been subjected to a coup,” Green MP Caroline Lucas charged. “Over the course of just a few days the Greek parliament is being forced to rush through emergency legislation to cut pensions, raise taxes and privatise swathes of the economy.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
