Christian Rickens — Greece's Referendum: The Price of Five Years of Cowardice

Much of Europe is outraged by Alexis Tsipras' decision to hold a referendum on reforms in Greece. But how did the euro zone allow an economically irrelevant country of 11 million to bring the common currency to the brink? Through cowardice.

Der Spiegel piles on. Spiegel Online Greece's Referendum: The Price of Five Years of Cowardice Christian Rickens | head of SPIEGEL ONLINE's business and economics desk See also Opinion: We Are Living in the Anti-Europe By Dirk Kurbjuweit