Greek debt crisis - Greeks must return to crisis talks

JUST as the details of our ECB bail out — or as it was so very delicately termed, “a facility” — were until recently almost as remote as the details of the third secret of Fatima, the minutae of what is being offered to the people Greece, or what is being rejected by their government, are not entirely clear.

The Greeks have been adept at suggesting they are not getting a fair crack of the whip and evidence given to our banking inquiry suggests those allegations may be plausible. The Greek government’s ploy, if that is what it is, is countered by an increasingly impatient EU political establishment.

This impatience is epitomised by the usually sanguine German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, who has described the Greek referendum decision as “perplexing and depressing”.