Greece’s Tsipras breaks the European front on Russia. Birth of a … – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 30 January 2015 to 08:05 hours.
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On Monday, the day after the election victory of SYRIZA, the party of the radical left in Athens The new prime minister Alexis Tsipras, 40, went to visit the Russian ambassador in the Greek capital to announce, in secret, that his government had threatened to veto a new wave of economic sanctions in Moscow on the crisis Ukrainian action which requires unanimity of the 28 member countries.

After the foreign minister greek, Kotzias, publicly announced that Athens would not support the decision to place other sanctions against Moscow, claim that he did jump on the chair policymakers foreign chancelleries of Europe and America.

What’s going on in the small Athens buffeted by six years of recession, the worst since the Second World War and the dramatic defeat by the Turks in Anatolia in 1922 that took away any Greek presence in Asia Minor since Homer? The party’s pro-Nazi Golden Dawn yesterday immediately welcomed the initiative of the government red-black (formed by a strange alliance between the radical left and the nationalist right Independent Greeks) stating that the geopolitical interests Greeks are opposed to sanctions on Russia and policies austerity imposed by the troika.

In the meeting held in Brussels on Thursday then Foreign Minister greek Kotzias sang victory stating that “was chosen the path of dialogue” with Moscow and then Athens has not had to veto. In short, a point in favor of the new government greek that showed in Moscow that the small Greece can be a valuable ally in the name of common Orthodox traditions, although Tsipras has refused to swear in the hands of the Orthodox primate of Greece unlike his Panos Kammenos ally, defense minister whose first trip abroad chose Nicosia, capital of Cyprus still divided into two parts since 1974, the area turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot area, only one recognized internationally.

The inconclusive meeting in Brussels of foreign ministers of the EU has now resulted in a signal of willingness on the part of Moscow, which does not browse some quiet water financially, to help Athens. A similar signal was also party in favor of Cyprus in 2013 when the island had made default to and asked for help before in Moscow (without success) and then to the EU and IMF.

Russia, in fact, has declared its willingness to provide financial aid to Greece increasingly on a collision course with its European partners and the IMF. This was stated in an interview with CNBC in Moscow Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. Greece has not yet made any request, said the Minister Vladimir Putin, but “if it did would definitely consider into consideration.” An important signal of availability to help the ally greek.

In the case of the privatization of the Greek company that owns the gas network, Brussels and Washington vetoed the sale to Gazprom, the Russian energy giant. But now the games are reopened. And not only in the energy field.

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