If Greece goes…

Greece’s road to the edge and beyond

A series of articles written by Tony Barber, Europe editor, chronicles Greece’s crisis and the historical roots of its current problems. Joshua Chaffin profiles Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the radical left coalition whose emergence on to political centre-stage in May 6 elections upended all calculations on whether Greece could stay in the eurozone. Pavlos Eleftheriadis, a Fellow in Law at Mansfield College, Oxford, argues that his country is ‘sleepwalking to disaster’ and explains why only the ‘emergence of new and credible political parties…give hope of a productive and competitive economy’. Wolfgang Münchau can see why Greeks would vote for Mr Tsipras but says his policy of cancelling Greece’s international ...