Can we get Greece's Alexis Tsipras to cross the pond? ..... He gets it.
from the Guardian UK:
The rising star of Europe Alexis Tsipras, the radical left Greek leader, has arrived in Paris to warn EU countries that their turn would come if they failed to oppose the radical austerity that is driving Greece to the brink of "collective suicide".
Tsipras, who is leading an austerity-backlash, said the future of Europe and the euro depended on the outcome of the Greece debt crisis. And he said he could feel a "wind of change" blowing across the continent that he hoped would lead to the "complete re-founding of Europe based on social cohesion and solidarity".
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Tsipras also reiterated his belief, aired in an interview with the Guardian at the weekend, that Greece was being subjected to an austerity programme as part of a "neoliberal shock experiment".
"This has driven my country to an unprecedented crisis and a humanitarian crisis. If this experiment is successful in Greece it will be exported to other European countries," he said. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/21/alexis-tsipras-greek-crisis-europe
