Greece has been failed by eurogroup and Tsipras

In the wake of the Greek referendum Kostas Karkagiannis, the foreign business editor of Kathimerini newspaper, looks at how Greece was treated by the eurozone and Tsipras

Things look different when you examine them with hindsight. Now, I suspect that probably neither the eurozone nor Tsipras wanted to reach a deal on Greece’s debt programme. I think the eurozone’s preference was to kick us out from the start and Tsipras’ preference was to return to the drachma. The result is a systemic failure both at European and Greek level.

How different things would be today if the eurozone and the then prime minister Antonis Samaras had made a deal in September. And it was easy. All that was needed was for the troika to make some small concessions.