The mood in Athens is as sombre as the weather as weary Greeks contemplate further spending cuts under fifth prime minister since eurozone crisis began A huge storm, violent, dark and loud, rumbled through Greece, thunder and lightning skittering through the skies. After Sunday’s general elections it was not lost on many: Athenians saw in the tempest a perfect metaphor, an omen even, that the old was finally being washed away. “People voted for change, for what they believed would be a fresh start,” Lefteris Pavlis, who owns a chain of eateries in the city centre, said on Monday. “They voted to give Alexis Tsipras a second chance, which says a lot about the state of the opposition.” Related: The lenders are the real winners in Greece – Alexis Tsipras has been set up to fail | Yanis Varoufakis Continue reading...
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