Far-right risk in Greece

Greece is one again rattling Europe with the prospect of the EU sceptical Syriza party coming to power if a vote on a new president for the country that begins this week fails.

There will be three rounds of votes among the parliamentarians, but if the big majority needed is not reached, then the government will fall.

The Troika has been unwilling to give the go-ahead for the release of bailout funds because they don’t trust the figures the Greek government has been giving them.

Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici is to visit Athens today but many are seeing this as the latest pressure from Brussels, and they don’t like it.