Outgoing PM has been on quite a journey but he doesn’t seem to have taken the Greek people with him For Brussels and Berlin, it may as well have been Moros, the Greek god of impending doom, a driver of mortals to their deadly fate, who had been elected as the prime minister of Greece in January 2015. Alexis Tsipras was the radical leftwing firebrand with the open-necked shirt, whose Syriza government posed a threat to the European order through its demands to rewrite the rules underpinning the single currency, and willingness to take Greece and the EU to the brink to achieve that goal. Related: The three mistakes behind Syriza’s demise in Greece | David Adler Continue reading...
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