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European rescue crews are responding regularly as boats filled with refugees from Africa and the Middle East attempt a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea. As many as 700 drowned trying to reach shore over the weekend. (Associated Press) **FILE**

JUDSON PHILLIPS: America becoming like Greece is a horrible warning for us all

By Judson Phillips

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras makes his way to welcome visiting Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiadis in Athens, on Friday, April 17, 2015. Anastasiadis is on a one-day official visit to Greece. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

THOMAS DIBACCO: Europe’s long-running struggle over Greece’s debt

By Thomas V. DiBacco

West African migrants walk on train tracks on their way toward the border with Macedonia near the town of Evzonoi, Greece, in this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Night train kills 14 migrants ‘sleeping’ on Macedonia tracks

By Boris Grdanoski and Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press

An man walk past a kiosk with Greek flags for sale in central Athens, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Greece is running perilously short of cash amid an impasse in bailout talks with its international creditors. Eurozone finance ministers are to meet in Riga, Latvia, on Friday but hopes of a deal on Greece there have diminished. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece’s shifting bailout deadlines fuel uncertainty

By Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Tourists listen to a guide as they stand in front of the Erechtheion temple during a visit at the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: the euro's steep drop in value is making the continent cheaper for tourists from across the world, especially the United States and China. For American tourists, the dollar’s strength translates into a discount of around 25 percent compared with this time last year. China’s currency has risen some 20 percent against the euro over the past year. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

European vacation as much as 25 percent cheaper due to euro

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, denies Greek counterpart’s ‘overthrow’ claim

Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center right, is surrounded by photographers and security as he arrives for a speech to his party's lawmakers at the parliament in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Ka-ching: Euro exit would cost Greece dear, shake eurozone

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures during a Presidential vote in Athens, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (Associated Press)

Germany rejects Greek olive branch on eve of bailout talks

By Nicholas Paphitis and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, welcomes conservative former interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Eurokinissi, Giorgos Kontarinis)

Greece readies proposal; Germany skeptical, U.S. concerned

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of Eurogroup finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Eurozone meeting on Greece bailout ends amid discord

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Greece, creditors open to compromise but deal still far off

By Derek Gatopoulos and Pan Pylas - Associated Press

During a joint news conference with President Obama Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated that Berlin still supported keeping Greece in the eurozone, but stood strongly behind the austerity program demanded by the Troika. (Associated Press)

Angela Merkel takes tough line on Greece ahead of key meeting

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

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SUZANNE FIELDS: Angela Merkel tangles with Alexis Tsipras over austerity

By Suzanne Fields

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Hungary on Monday that her nation will not provide military hardware to Ukraine and asserted that the war with Russia-backed forces "cannot be solved militarily." (Associated Press)

Germany holds Greece to austerity terms despite election of Syriza leftists

By Angela Waters - Special to The Washington Times

A woman waves a Greek flag during a speech by the leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis Tsipras outside Athens University Headquarters, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. A triumphant Alexis Tsipras told Greeks that his radical left Syriza party's win in Sunday's early general election meant an end to austerity and humiliation and that the country's regular and often fraught debt inspections were a thing of the past. "Today the Greek people have made history. Hope has made history," Tsipras said in his victory speech at a conference hall in central Athens. (AP Photo/Fotis Plegas G.)

PETER MORICI: Now Greeks should dump the Euro

By Peter Morici

Leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis Tsipras reacts as his supporters gather outside Athens University Headquarters in Athens, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Alexis Tsipras sworn in as new Greek prime minister

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi speaks during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, following a meeting of the ECB governing council. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

PETER MORICI: Printing money won’t save moribund European economies

By Peter Morici

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's Syriza left-wing main opposition party, waves to his supporters as he arrives for a pre-election speech at Omonia Square in Athens Thursday. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy party has failed so far to overcome a gap in opinion polls with the anti-bailout Syriza party ahead of the Jan. 25 general election. (Associated Press)

Greece’s ties to EU strained by surge from left

By Jacob Resneck - Special to the Washington Times

Greek Cypriots cast a suspicious eye on the Cypriot gas pipeline project, as the EU selected a plan that went out of its way to exclude Turkish participation. (associated press)

Cyprus: Cypriot union threatened by dispute over oil and gas rights

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times