Article CS8J Greece crisis timeline: the weekend that rocked the eurozone

Greece crisis timeline: the weekend that rocked the eurozone

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Katie Allen
from Economics | The Guardian on (#CS8J)

On Friday eurozone officials were still hopeful of a weekend deal - on Sunday night the Greek government closed the banks for a week

Greeks woke on Monday to closed banks after a weekend that has shaken Europe's single currency and pushed down stock markets.

How did it come to this? We look back over the events of the last three days.

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Capital controls within a monetary union are a contradiction in terms. The Greek government opposes the very concept.

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