ROME (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, a unanimous agreement on Greece’s third bailout package, estimated at 86 billion euro ($95 billion) to be allocated over the next three years, was struck.
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo, the founder and the leader of the Italian political party Five Star Movement, has described the Eurogroup approach to resolving the Greek debt crisis "the strategy of terror."
According to him, EU leaders are looking for the resignation of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
"The voting in the Greek referendum has been trampled. Germany humiliated Greece. Tsipras is being pushed to step down in order to create a new government of 'national unity' desired by the troika," Grillo wrote in his blog.
Matteo Salvini, the head of Italy’s right-wing Lega Nord political party, labeled the summit a "clownery."
"In my opinion, the European Union, headed by Germany, bought further presence of Greece in the eurozone, promising 80 billion [euro] in exchange for sales and gifts to the same multinational companies," Salvini said in a post on his Twitter account.
Meanwhile, Stefania Prestigiacomo, a member of the center-right political party the People of Freedom, said that the proposal of the eurozone leaders to create a special fund of Greek assets represented a dangerous precedent for the future of Europe.
Prior to reaching the bailout deal, Athens was engaged in months-long talks with its international lenders, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Central Bank and some eurozone nations.
The country defaulted on a $1.7 billion IMF debt repayment on June 30 and held a referendum on whether to accept the creditors’ plan that stipulated economic reforms and austerity measures.
After Greek voters rejected the lenders-proposed bailout proposals, Athens presented its own strategy on how to deal with the debt on July 9.
