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Greece

#Greekment! 10 Top European Tweets After Grexit Averted

#Greekment! 10 Top European Tweets After Grexit Averted
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PARIS — After a marathon 15-hour meeting, Greece and the 18 other Eurozone members finally reached an agreement to avoid a "Grexit." The Greeks will keep the euro and receive financial support in exchange for implementing a stringent program of reforms by Wednesday at the latest.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed the deal which avoids a bank collapse in Greece, but now faces a potential political crisis at home. He secured negotiations for a new three-year bailout program and a re-profiling of Greece's debt, but the Greek parliament was given just 48 hours to approve austerity measures judged harsher than those rejected by Greek voters only last Sunday.

The resolution to the Greek debt crisis — if it actually is one — also played out over Twitter. The first news that a deal had been reached came from Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, who at 8:39 a.m. simply tweeted:

Hours before, as the Eurogroup meeting ran late into the night, activists from Spain's leftist "Barcelona en Comú" party started the #ThisIsACoup Twitter hashtag that has since soared to #1 in many European countries.

We profile some of the best tweets from the Greek crisis, starting with French President François Hollande (one of a handful of praising tweets, compared to the flood of negative reactions) and Spain's Podemos Secretary-General Pablo Iglesias Turrion:

An agreement has been found. France was working toward it, wanted it. Greece remains in the Eurozone. Europe has won.

All our support is with the Greek people and their government against the mafiosos


GREECE

PORTUGAL

Do the PSD Portugal's governing party supporters celebrating the slaughter of Greece ignore that Portugal is the next victim?


GERMANY

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I have never been proud to be German. But I'd never been particularly ashamed of it either because I was born in 1967. Today I am ashamed.


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FRANCE


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Politicians against strong powers, against international finance and against banks: Tsipras, Iglesias, Grillo, Hitler.

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Genoa Postcard: A Tale Of Modern Sailors, Echos Of The Ancient Mariner

Many seafarers are hired and fired every seven months. Some keep up this lifestyle for 40 years while sailing the world. Some of those who'd recently docked in the Italian port city of Genoa, share a taste of their travels that are connected to a long history of a seafaring life.

A sailor smokes a cigarette on the hydrofoil Procida

A sailor on the hydrofoil Procida in Italy

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Paolo Griseri

GENOA — Cristina did it to escape after a tough breakup. Luigi because he dreamed of adventures and the South Seas. Marianna embarked just “before the refrigerator factory where I worked went out of business. I’m one of the few who got severance pay.”

To hear their stories, you have to go to the canteen on Via Albertazzi, in Italy's northern port city of Genoa, across from the ferry terminal. The place has excellent minestrone soup and is decorated with models of the ships that have made the port’s history.

There are 38,000 Italian professional sailors, many of whom work here in Genoa, a historic port of call that today is the country's second largest after Trieste on the east coast. Luciano Rotella of the trade union Italian Federation of Transport Workers says the official number of maritime workers is far lower than the reality, which contains a tangle of different laws, regulations, contracts and ethnicities — not to mention ancient remnants of harsh battles between shipowners and crews.

The result is that today it is not so easy to know how many people sail, nor their nationalities.

What is certain is that every six to seven months, the Italian mariner disembarks the ship and is dismissed: they take severance pay and after waits for the next call. Andrea has been sailing for more than 20 years: “When I started out, to those who told us we were earning good money, I replied that I had a precarious life: every landing was a dismissal.”

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