The leaders of eurozone member countries did a deal to bail out Greece for the simple and compelling reason that failure to do so would have indicated that the entire single currency project was unsustainable. It doesn’t take much effort of imagination to picture how financial markets would have responded to that revelation. Few things concentrate the mind like the threat of total economic meltdown.
Greek bailout sets Europe on collision course with Tories
There's an aspect of the eurozone crisis that has yet to register with the British public.