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Greece may have blown best chance of long-term debt deal

PM Alexis Tsipras's leftist-led government has thoroughly shattered creditors' trust

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Published Sun, Apr 12, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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    EVEN if it survives the next three months teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Greece may have blown its best chance of a long-term debt deal by alienating its eurozone partners when it most needed their support.

    Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's leftist-led government has so thoroughly shattered creditors' trust that solutions which might have been on offer a few weeks ago now seem out of reach.

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