It’s also interesting that the first two EU nations to indicate that they might leave the EU for an alliance with Russia are both former Soviet satellite countries that revolted against the Soviet dictatorship; both are Eastern European, not Western European. Perhaps these leaders are more loathe to be controlled by tyrants than are the ones for whom the very idea of being subordinate to a tyrant is just a mere abstraction. (Merkel, however, seems simply to love whatever is conservative, even if it might happen to be nazi, as in Ukraine.)

Tsipras forderte zugleich, dass die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) auch Griechenland in ihr geplantes Programm von Anleihenkäufen („Quantitative Easing“) aufnehmen solle. „Die direkten Anleihenkäufe durch die EZB müssen Griechenland inkludieren“, sagte Tsipras auf einem Syriza-Parteitag drei Wochen vor der Parlamentswahl.

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(18.12.2014) Francois Hollande will block Mr Cameron’s request for a change to the EU treaty to include a new settlement for Britain in Europe, The Telegraph has learnt.

Mr Hollande will tell the Prime Minister that he is opposed to amending the EU’s treaty on the grounds that change is not needed and might trigger a referendum in France.

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Cameron is expected to discuss his plans, which he has said will require EU treaty change, during a meeting with German leader Angela Merkel in London on Wednesday.

(16.10.2014) „Die Kaste“, wie Podemos all diejenigen nennt, die von der Politik oder der Nähe zur Macht leben, soll aus den Amtsstuben verjagt, Korrupte vor den Kadi gestellt, der Einfluss der Banken und Großunternehmen gebrochen werden.

If Spain were to go to the polls today, its next prime minister would be Pablo Iglesias, a 36-year-old professor and talk show guest with no previous political experience, according to a recent survey conducted for the upcoming general elections in 2015.

Subsequently it became the target of a wild (and desperate) campaign against it in the mainstream media, including attempts by leading politicians to link it with the Basque terrorist group ETA and the other usual “bêtes noires” of Spanish society — Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, etc. The counter-reaction has been an abject failure, particularly as Podemos representatives have deftly used their media exposure to talk exclusively about the social changes they plan to make — leaving their adversaries to look down and suddenly realise they are entering free fall like a Warner Brothers cartoon character, suspended in mid-air after running off a cliff.

To the question “Who is the most suitable Prime Minister?” respondents replied:

41% Antonia Samaras

33.4% Alexis Tsipras

23.6% Nobody

SPD-Fraktionschef Thomas Oppermann warnt Griechenland vor einer Abkehr vom Sparkurs nach der Parlamentswahl am 25. Januar. Es sei den Steuerzahlern in Europa nicht zu vermitteln, wenn in Griechenland die Probleme ausgesessen würden.