Tsipras

I am not worried about Alexis Tsipras; he's been a teenager and knows what to do: lie like heck. Because that is the truth of the situation he is facing, isn't it. Parents who just don't have a clue as to what is possible and what isn't.

He is being praised for that clever referendum. Commentors fail to notice that he is heading a minority government, in alliance with a few from the far right. That referendum was necessary to give himself political legitimacy. Which he got.

What commentators are getting right is the silliness of the present debt dilemna Greece is facing: borrowing ever more to pay back the same creditor, with conditions a little worse each time because it is, well, indebted. The underlying truth here is that the financial system is inherently opportunistic, and European governments are letting all this happen to bolster their own internal economies (some say, restabilize banking after 2008).

So who speaks for Europe, for the dream of Europe. Because it is necessary and beautiful thing. Just the other day, at the bottom of those web pages on the Greek crisis, a little article on how they had quite possibly found life on Tchouri, an incredible breakthrough in our scientific undersdtanding.

I am leaving the last word to Pierre, a Le Monde reader who has obviously travelled to Greece:

I would think yes; if not from one pocket than the other.