Germans suspicious of Greece’s reform plans

Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras have sought to play down the drama of the Greek leader’s first official visit to Berlin today.

However, open scepticism among the chancellor’s allies has spawned media portrayals of a Western-style showdown.

Unsurprisingly perhaps, German media have cast Greece’s leftist prime minister as the outlaw and the conservative German chancellor as a sheriff fighting to keep the eurozone together.