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On 5 July 2015, 61 percent of Greek voters rejected austerity, prompting talk of a Grexit (Photo: EUobserver)

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'Greece has become a small problem'

At a press conference last Friday (1 July), neither European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker not Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, whose country now holds the EU presidency, uttered the name Greece.

It was a sea change compared to a year ago, when, on 5 July 2015, 63 percent of Greek voters rejected a bailout plan proposed by its creditors in a referendum.

The vote took place amid political tension in Greece, whose banks had been forced to impose capital controls, and ...

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On 5 July 2015, 61 percent of Greek voters rejected austerity, prompting talk of a Grexit (Photo: EUobserver)

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