Greek deal: Coup used financial system instead of tanks

A united Europe is dead, buried in the rubble of the economic war unleashed against the people in the peripheral countries that were bailed out by the troika, writes Rory Hearne

THE ideal of a united Europe providing a global beacon of peace, democracy, and sustainable growth is dead.

It is buried in the rubble of the economic war unleashed against the people in the peripheral countries bailed out by the troika: Greece, Ireland, Cyprus, and Portugal.