What now, Merkel? asks Germany after Greek voters reject further austerity
German reaction to referendum result points to a hardening approach that envisages the eurozone without Greece
Waiting at Berlin's Zoo station for an S-Bahn train to take her home from a night shift, Diana Well took a glance at the daily papers being sold on the platform. "What now, chancellor?" she said, reading out the headline in the tabloid Bild. "Yes, that's just what I'd like to know," the 54-year-old said.
"I work hard, but I try to follow the news as best I can - Syria, the migrant crisis and Greece - and I can say while I'm dumbfounded by a lot of what goes on in the world, the situation in Athens just makes me shake my head and has done over five long years."
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