Alexis Tsipras must be stopped: the underlying message of Europe's leaders

Germany's vice-chancellor has become the first senior EU politician to voice the private views of many - that the Greek PM is a threat to the European order

One day before Greece's bailout ends and the country's financial lifeline melts away, Europe's big guns have lined up one after another to tell the Greeks unequivocally that voting no in Sunday's referendum means saying goodbye to the euro.

There was no mistaking the gravity of the situation now facing both Greece and Europe on Monday. Leaders were by turns ashen-faced, resigned, desperate and pleading with Athens to think again and pull back from the abyss.

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