Last Sunday, Greek citizens experienced a rare moment of elation when it seemed for a split second that the country was set to reclaim its future, albeit at the cost of short-term economic catastrophe.
Swept up in the referendum fever, 61% of the country voted “no” to further austerity, cementing Alexis Tsipras’ hold on power and giving the PM carte blanche to tell Angela Merkel, Wolfgang Shchaeuble, and the rest of the Bundestag that Greece’s days as a debt colony were officially over.
Only that’s not what happened.