After the people of Greece voted against the bailout terms on offer in Sunday’s referendum, the likelihood of the country staying in the Euro is beginning to diminish. Now, they have received yet another blow.
A crowdfunder campaign, started by Londoner Thom Feeney to raise the full €1,600,000,000 needed, has been closed down after failing to meet its target. The IndieGoGo fundraiser claimed that since ‘all this dithering over Greece is getting boring’ it was time to forget the European ministers working on deals and instead let ‘the people just sort it instead’.
Alas, it seems out of the 503 million people across Europe, only a small percentage wanted to take part. The campaign managed to muster €1,930,577, a fraction of the funds needed. This money will now be returned to the donors as the total amount was not achieved. However, Feeney has now started a second campaign, which has only made €24,193 so far:
Power to the people!
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