Alexis Tsipras, at 40 Greece’s youngest-ever prime minister, heads coalition of left and right parties with mandate to take on country’s paymastersGreek radicals sought on Monday to redraw the political map of Europe, forming a coalition government of left and right, united only by their desire to defy the European financial establishment and shrug off the constraints of austerity.The new coalition, led by 40 year-old Alexis Tsipras, was expected to dispatch its new finance minister to Brussels in the next few days to seek a fundamental renegotiation of Greece economic bailout package, vowing “the end of humiliation has come”. Tsipras and his Syriza party have promised to replace the austerity programmes imposed by its international creditors with policies aimed at helping the third of the population now living in poverty. Continue reading...
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