Greece: The Criticism and Analysis Continue; Tsipras, Dimou, Spiegel and others

From The Economist

From Observing Greece

Monday may herald more positive coverage (Merkel-Tsipras talks in Berlin).

Does it depend on the exact list of Greek reforms, or on wider geopolitical issues?

Tsipras' Letter to Merkel: The Annotated  Text (FT Blog, Peter Spiegel)

A sample of Greek Radio: Ellinofrenia, Real Gr March 23 Part 1

Part 2, Ellinofrenia, 23 March

PM Tsipras National Briefing press conference in Brussels - it all sounds very optimistic

A book by Yanis Varoufakis

Alan Posener, The Guardian

- and a thoughtful analysis in some historical context, by Nikos Dimou (The Guardian)

"The causes of the crisis may be complex – but the Greeks always needed a simple and straightforward answer. They have a long history of attributing their problems to foreign powers and agents. When I was a child, it was the English (“the secret finger of the intelligence service”) who were to blame. Then, for five decades, it was the US and the CIA. In the 1980s and 1990s, Greece was the most anti-American nation in the world after Pakistan. And now the enemy is Germany. But why only Germany? After all, many factors were involved: the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and 18 eurozone states".

Manolis Glezos, Ta Nea - «Οχι στο κλίμα διχόνοιας και μισαλλοδοξίας μεταξύ Ελλάδας - Γερμανίας»

A tune for the times? Vendetta, Link Wray

Spiegel Online 1

Spiegel Online 2

Council on Foreign Relations - Greece and the Politics of Arrears" by Robert Kahn

George Soros on Greece, Bloomberg