EUROZONE-GREECE/MORNING Athens residents concerned and angry about future before Euro zone leaders clinched a deal with Greece

Record ID: 147273

  • Title: EUROZONE-GREECE/MORNING Athens residents concerned and angry about future before Euro zone leaders clinched a deal with Greece
  • Date: 13th July 2015
  • Summary: ATHENS, GREECE (JULY 13, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ACROPOLIS WITH GREEK FLAG FLYING IN FRONT OF PARTHENON EXTERIORS OF GREEK PARLIAMENT GREEK FLAG FLYING VARIOUS OF PRESIDENTIAL GUARD VARIOUS OF SYNTAGMA SQUARE IN FRONT OF GREEK PARLIAMENT VARIOUS OF PASSERS-BY (SOUNDBITE) (Greek) 44 YEAR-OLD CIVIL SERVANT, SPIROS, SAYING: "I am concerned and sad with this situation. A hi
  • Embargoed: 28th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Greece
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GFO113Y0JBMBMSA08ITWWWCU
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: As negotiations went on between Greece and fellow eurozone members in Brussels, residents of Athens said on Monday (July 13) they were angry about the future and thought they had been mistreated by their partners.
    Speaking before the all-night talks in Brussels ended with a deal to negotiate a third bailout, residents including 44 year-old civil servant Spiros said they regretted how far the country had come.
    "I am concerned and sad with this situation. A historic country like Greece should never have reached this point," he said.
    "We are very concerned for Greece," said pensioner Angela.
    The tough conditions of the deal looked set to threaten the stability of Greece's leftist government run by Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras.
    They also provoked a backlash in Greece against the country's biggest creditor Germany, seen as driving a hard bargain during the tense talks.
    "No one knows how this will end. It will end of course one day but it will end with an asphyxiating noose that the Germans will tighten round us, doing what they want. That's what I think will happen. But many people here, it's not that they're hungry it's that they're indignant because they don't know what's going to happen tomorrow," Vangelis Lioumbis, a Greek citizen now living in Montreal, said.
    "I'm also angry because the way the Europeans have treated us is not European behaviour," 69 year-old businesswoman Athena Kamfoma said.
    Greek media said that the talks had left the country at the doors of a "mammoth bailout".
    But German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble came in for criticism from right-leaning newspaper Dimokratia.
    "Greece in Auschwitz. Schaeuble wants a holocaust in the eurozone," the headline said.
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