Rolling coverage as Greece’s new prime minister gets down to business, and European ministers meet in Brussels 8.29am GMT David Cameron has offered British assistance to help Greece tighten up its tax collecting operations.Speaking on the Today Programme, the PM said he spoke with Alexis Tsipras last night to congratulate him on his win. That is something we can work with the Greek government on.Cameron says he offered Greece's new PM help on tax transparency. Dave & George Osborne breaking promise to publish their own tax returns 8.20am GMT Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has just told reporters in Brussels that Europe isn’t to blame for Greece’s problems: *SCHAEUBLE SAYS STRUCTURAL REFORMS IN #EU ARE A NECESSITY 8.17am GMT My colleague Phoebe Greenwood is in Athens with a film crew. She reports that hopes turned to anxiety yesterday as it emerged Syriza was partnering with the populist Independent Greeks: 8.09am GMT There’ll only be 10 ministers in Tsipras’s cabinet, Syriza tweets:New government is set to consist of only 10 ministers. 8.07am GMT Prime minister David Cameron has cited Greece’s problems as a reason for UK voters to stick with him at the next British general election, in 100 days time.Interviewed on Sky News this morning, Cameron said that the eurozone’s political landscape is undergoing major change.In Greece, it is reaction to economic failure. The economy is a fifth smaller than before the financial crisis....The eurozone is a system that is not working properly. .@David_Cameron on Greek elections: "There is a huge contrast between Britain…and the failure and risks we see in Greece" @BBCBreakfastWith 100 days to go to the election - I'll be on @BBCr4today at 810am, explaining why the choice is between competence and chaos. 7.55am GMT Alexis Tsipras has a nasty surprise when he arrived at the prime minister’s headquarters yesterday, the To Vima newspaper reports.The new government found the Maximos Mansion almost bare, with no sign of computers or paperwork. Even the bathrooms were cleared out.“They took everything and left. I was looking for an hour to find soap.”#Tsipras finds PM's office empty: previous occupant #Samaras cleared out everything, apparently. Even took the soap. http://t.co/GfeHTL6Eiw 7.49am GMT #Greece's new cabinet to be announced today. Final hour modifications... 7.48am GMT Alexis Tsipras is expected to start the process of unpicking Greece’s austerity programme quickly, once his cabinet is in place.His first bill is expected to raise the minimum wage back to €751/month, and to bring back regulations allowing collective wage bargaining. That could be followed by a doaft law to The bill foresees the new payment plans leading to no more than between 20 and 30 percent of taxpayers’ annual income going toward repaying their debts. 7.42am GMT Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of events in Greece.SYRIZA’s left wing, or Left Platform, will probably be represented in the government by Panayiotis Lafazanis, Dimitris Stratoulis and Nikos Hountis.Rania Antonopoulou, the director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program at the Levy Institute, is expected to be appointed to the Labor Ministry, possibly as a deputy to Stratoulis.Tuesday's Guardian front page: Radical Greeks vow to see off age of austerity #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/6cxIbNhPPv Continue reading...
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