In the first week in office to inflict as much damage, which probably has done no government: The team of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras angered the European Commission and Germany with the major creditors. Athens brought with China one of the few investors against himself, who still believed in Greece, and gave the stock market panic. Praise in the diplomatic arena won Tsipras only in Moscow. Once in office, the Exkommunist distanced itself from a statement by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union, in Russia because of the escalation in Ukraine tougher sanctions were threatened.
inexperience or tactics?
tried Tsipras in the closing stages of the campaign with state-supporting rhetoric to get rid of its image as a left enfant terrible, he now seems to confirm the worst fears. In one of his first acts he stopped the privatization of the port of Piraeus, what the Chinese investors who have already invested millions in infrastructure alerted.
Athens sat thus on agreements of time that the previous government with Troika had taken from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The triumvirate of creditors, the new government will have nothing more to do anyway. This summoned the Minister of Finance Janis Varoufakis the head of the central for the euro debt negotiation group, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, at a joint press appearance. That an important emissary in inaugural visit the door is rejected, testifies irritating insolence.
What’s in a verbal confrontation? A daring negotiating tactic, which aims to extort concessions with hard occurrence? Or manifests itself as inexperience, as the Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis, the only cabinet member with experience in government hinted? Or did the European partners and the media, the new representative of Greece just misunderstood? Because after every outcry over Athens roller coaster ride, the government assured ritually, they aspire an advantageous solution for both sides to
What is now considered -. Cooperation or confrontation – not opened up even those who by following the election of SYRIZA Athens rushed. The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, was very optimistic about its willingness to compromise, after a conversation with Tsipras. Three days later warned Schulz, when Tsipras believes he can send the Troika home and the Europeans financed his campaign promises him that he had been mistaken. For their first foreign visits the Greek government chose to France for budgetary sinners and the Eurosceptic Britain. This means it can hardly confidence in Germany, which are crucial for Greece contact.
Striking Policy
Tsipras, a power-conscious tactician, is manifestly it to please his clients with bold actions. The dismissed maids of Finance, the mutated into a symbol externally determined austerity, were immediately stopped again. Used instead to the troika odious as he assumed the ousted government, he uses it to front. As he was thus the radical wing of his leftist alliance SYRIZA satisfy you, the dreams of a Greece outside the EU.
The accident Start of the left government, which has brought a right-wing nationalist partners on board weighs, the more difficult than the Time is running against Athens. The end of February the utility of international lenders will expire without replacement. Without connection solution Athens slides against a sovereign default, especially since the damp southern Europeans can no longer finance in the markets. A Plan B is hard to imagine anyone. Even if the signaled from Russia helpfulness would materialize, this would hardly suffice
China’s state press inspired the precarious situation of the newcomer Tsipras to a handle in the Greek mythology. She compared the new government with Phaethon, which it Despite his father’s warnings arrogated to direct the precious sun chariot during a day. The foursome starts moving and soon gets out of control.
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