Greece and the eurozone play fox and hound as the clock ticks down

A high stakes game is being played out in Brussels as Greeks play for time – and money

A fox is set against a hound – a classic battle of dogged determination versus guile and cunning. But which one is the new Greek government and which is the Eurogroup?

Yannis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, was able to reach into the rich resource that is Greek mythology to enhance the metaphor further. An aside in his book, Europe after the Minotaur, recounted the tale of Laelaps – the hound created by ...