Tassos Symeonides
(Academic Advisor, RIEAS)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: 24 September 2015
What's the general "feeling" about the September 20 election? How does the political landscape look right now?
After an uninspiring, sullen campaign, replete with grand-standing and worn-out clichés, Mr. Tsipras and his divided SYRIZA party have won their second general election in nine months. SYRIZA, once Greece's "great Left hope," is now the timid servant of EU diktats, having capitulated to the creditors after a prolonged July 12 session in the EU's torture chamber known as the "Eurogroup." ..Read more