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"Greece has essentially seen its independence eviscerated" (Photo: Laurent Sauvebois)

The EU's darkest day

Monday July 13 will go down in history as the day Greece lost its independence after 185 years of freedom, the day democracy died in the country that invented it and the day the European Union took a decisive step towards self-destruction.

After almost 20 hours of of browbeating by EU leaders in Brussels – which one senior official compared to “mental waterboarding” – Greece was given a blunt choice: vote through a raft of draconian measures demanded by creditors or leave the Eurozone. ...

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"Greece has essentially seen its independence eviscerated" (Photo: Laurent Sauvebois)

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