This is what happens when the EU has you by the balls. Any time they want Greece to do anything, they will threaten to sink the economy. They even gave us a taste of what will happen when they stopped supplying money to Greek banks just before the infamous OXI vote. The day they did that was the day that Greece should have left the EU, regardless of the short to medium term economic consequences. But when push came to shove, the majority of people didn't have the stomach for it. Be it the political class, rich, poor and everyone in between. They wanted the benefits of EU membership without having to reorganise their economy. If Tsipras (not that it would ever have happened anyway) or anyone else had threatened and actually went through with Grexit he probably would have been assassinated. This situation where the majority of people were saying OXI to the austerity but NAI to EU membership is f**king ridiculous. When I first saw that I wasn't sure I was seeing it correctly, but there it was. National schizophrenia. Greece wants to have its cake and eat it too, the f**ing end.