Tormenting Greece is about sending a message that we are now in a new EU

No deeper divide than that between those brought to heel and those who shout ‘Heel!’

Updated: Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 16:02
Fintan O'Toole

Brussels all-nighter.... Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (right) and Finance Minister Euclide Tsakalotos leave at the end of the euro zone summit on Monday. Photograph: Thierry Charlier/AFP/Getty Images

Brussels all-nighter.... Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (right) and Finance Minister Euclide Tsakalotos leave at the end of the euro zone summit on Monday. Photograph: Thierry Charlier/AFP/Getty Images

What’s the difference between the Mafia and the current European leadership? The Mafia makes you an offer you can’t refuse. The leaders of the European Union offer you a deal you can neither refuse nor accept without destroying yourself.

The European Union as we have known it ended over the weekend. That EU project was all about the gradual convergence of equal nations into an “ever closer union”. That’s finished now.

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