Special Report: The man who cost Greece billions


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  • Monday, 20 Jul 2015

A torn poster of opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras is seen on a street near a place where far-right Golden Dawn party had a campaign rally in Athens, Greece in this January 21, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Marko Djurica/Files

ATHENS (Reuters) - Once again Alexis Tsipras was struggling to make a decision. For hours on July 13, the Greek prime minister and Europe's leaders had been trying to thrash out a new deal to bail out bankrupt Greece and keep the country in the euro zone.

Now a clean copy of the latest text had been printed, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Council President Donald Tusk were satisfied with the terms. So too appeared Tsipras – but he left the room to check the details one more time with colleagues in his leftist party Syriza.

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