Interesting to read a substantial criticism of Syriza, I wasn't aware of how inexperienced they were in government affairs and I don't think they're getting as much blame as they deserve after this article. Between this and the continued insistence on austerity measures, which, if there's so much evidence that they don't work why are they still being put in place?Germany has blocked even fairly tame, pro-bank and therefore pro-financial stability measures to make Eurozone-level institutions more powerful, like having Eurozone-wide and Eurozone-level funded deposit guarantees. Even worse, by demonizing borrowers and stoking voter hostility against “dirty lazy Greeks” when Greeks actually work more hours than Germans, Merkel and other German leaders have strengthened the already large domestic political obstacles to putting the Eurozone on a sounder, more durable footing.