Greece Lampooned by German Media as Voters Split on Euro Future

The Greek Bailout: Deal or no Deal?

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The gloves are off in German media coverage of Greece’s spiraling debt crisis as the war of words between Europe’s renegade and its biggest stalwart escalates in the countdown to Sunday’s referendum.

Handelsblatt, a business and finance newspaper, transposed an image of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras holding a pistol to his head on its front page on Friday with the headline “Hand over the money or I’ll shoot.”