Brussels Briefing - EU rapidly changes it’s tune on Greece

The mood music around the election of left-wing Syriza in Greece changed significantly in the EU as voting day approached.

Brussels Briefing - EU rapidly changes it’s tune on Greece
Mon, 26 Jan, 2015 - 00:00
Ann Cahill

It started out as a shrill message, including from our own Department of Finance that “we are not Greece”; included messages from Berlin that anybody other than EPP’s centre right PM Antonis Samaras could not be trusted; and threats of no more money.

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