EU loans to Greece may be possible

Europe 'will not desert' people in crisis, no matter how vote goes, Paliament head says

Europe will not "desert" the people of Greece regardless of the outcome of Sunday's referendum and may provide it emergency loans, the head of the European Parliament said on Sunday.

Martin Schulz, European Parliament president, told Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the Athens government had manoeuvred the heavily-indebted country "into a dead end".