Alexis Tsipras aims to steer eurozone bailout plan through Greek parliament
by Phillip Inman in London, Helena Smith in Athens, a from Economics | The Guardian on (#E75G)
Prime minister faces tough task to keep his Syriza party united, as former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis likens bailout proposal to 1919 Versailles treaty
Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical-leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of "gunboat diplomacy".
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