Closer to home, in Athens, members of the Left Platform, led by Panagiotis Lafazanis, the former energy and environment minister, met at the Oscar Hotel on the night of July 14 to discuss how they might go through with the Grexit that Schäuble had offered, but Merkel, Tusk, Hollande and Tsipras had done everything to avoid. It had been a mistake not to make the break with Brussels already in February. Now, before the prison door closed once more, they should effect a rupture, if necessary by radical means.
