The Greek premier strives to reinvent himself and win a new mandate. But office in Greece does not necessarily mean powerThe Greek crisis has from the beginning been unpredictable. It was anybody’s guess whether the country would stay in the eurozone or not. It was hard to know what the next set of Greek proposals would be as envoys zoomed between Athens and Brussels, or what a divided European Union would or would not do about them.This was a continuous cliffhanger, with default or a final breakdown of negotiations a constant prospect. The only real certainty was that the crisis would not go away. What was decided would alter the form the crisis took but would not resolve it. When agreement was finally reached, and even as the latest bailout squeezed through both the Greek and the German parliaments, it was apparent that the political chain reaction would continue to surprise and disconcert decision makers in both Greece and the other countries of the union. Continue reading...
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