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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras unveils cabinet of mavericks and visionaries

New finance minister says debt negotiations will not continue with hated troika of technocrats representing foreign lendersGreece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has lined up a formidable coterie of academics, human rights advocates, mavericks and visionaries to participate in Europe’s first anti-austerity government.Displaying few signs of backing down from pledges to dismantle punitive belt-tightening measures at the heart of the debt-choked country’s international rescue programme, the leftwing radical put together a 40-strong cabinet clearly aimed at challenging Athens’ creditors. Continue reading...


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