All eyes are on Greece after the radical left-wing Syriza shocked the European establishment by taking power from the previous centre-right austerity-supporting government.
Two seats short of an absolute majority, Syriza rapidly formed a coalition with the right-wing, populist, and anti-austerity party, the Independent Greeks.
This will give the new government a broad mandate to counter the austerity programme of the troika of international lenders (the European Commission, the E...
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