'Greece Needs Broader Structural Reforms Than Syriza Has Proposed'

<blockquote>'Unfortunately the new government has an agenda of welfare populism, suspicious to any kind of market-reforms and protective of vested interests. This is a recipe for a disaster.'

- Aristides N. Hatzis, Greece Needs Broader Structural Reforms Than Syriza Has Proposed, January 27, 2014</blockquote>


'Anton Shekhovtsov, a researcher who studies far-right politics in Europe, says that sympathy for Russia by Syriza and its coalition partner, the right-wing Independent Greeks party, goes far beyond the norm for Greece.'

<blockquote>'..recently leaked e-mails are revealing some of the extent and duration of Syriza's ties with Kremlin-connected Eurasianist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin and Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who is believed to have bankrolled much of the separatist movement in Ukraine.

Anton Shekhovtsov, a researcher who studies far-right politics in Europe, says that sympathy for Russia by Syriza and its coalition partner, the right-wing Independent Greeks party, goes far beyond the norm for Greece.

"Pro-Russian sentiment is quite widespread in Greece overall," Shekhovtsov says. "But these two parties -- their foreign policy is overtly, openly pro-Russia. And the fact that the new government's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, his first contacts were with the ambassador of Russia in Greece, that means probably they will be trying to establish more significant cooperation with Russia."

In December 2014, a Russian hacker group named Shaltai Boltai released a trove of e-mails taken from Georgy Gavrish, a close friend of Dugin's and an official in Dugin's Eurasia movement. Many of the e-mails relate to efforts by Dugin and Malofeyev to create a circle of European politicians and intellectuals sympathetic to Russia.'

- New Greek Government Has Deep, Long-Standing Ties With Russian 'Fascist' Dugin, January 29, 2015 </blockquote>


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<blockquote>'..Greece .. may have to return to its old currency, the drachma, and exit the eurozone..'

'People who are driven by revanchism must experience its consequences.' - Skobov</blockquote>