05/12/2014:
Greek hopes of waving goodbye to bailout appear to be dashed
For Greece, this was supposed to be the end.
After more than four years and two separate rescues totalling €245bn, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had promised his beleaguered countrymen that 2014 would mark the close of Greece’s bailout era. Gone with it would be the painful austerity measures and the humiliating oversight of its international lenders.