Huffington Post
May 23, 2012
Despite the threatening, the wailing, the entreating and the haranguing coming from Brussels and Berlin, targeted at "forcing" the creation of a national salvation broad coalition unity government, it is now official: Greece is on the way to a new round of elections on June 17.
This has necessitated some juggling as many EU deadlines for Greece were coming up in the next few weeks. Yet the Europeans have obviously decided to grit their teeth and wait out this new twist in the Greek drama.
This de facto softening, both of the EU position (which is, invariably nowadays, the view from Berlin), as well as of the rhetoric used by EU and German officials stems from the staggering 16.78 percent of the vote that Syriza gathered in the elections of May 6. It is also born of the adamant refusal of one man -- the head of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras -- to participate in, or even "tolerate," a broad coalition government.
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