Tsakalotos on Wall Street

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos recently rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier, he met with businesspeople, fund managers and representatives of the financial markets, and spoke at the Invest in Greece Capital Link Forum.

Meanwhile back home, Tsakalotos came under fire from officials of the two biggest opposition parties, New Democracy and the Movement for Change (the new center-left party led by PASOK's Fofi Gennimata), for having visited the mecca of capitalism and for cozying up to the representatives of big money.

Criticism from the left was anticipated and justified. The Greek Communist Party (KKE), Sailing for Freedom, Popular Unity and Antarsya have every reason to emphasize the inconsistencies and transformation of SYRIZA and to lash at the betrayal, as it were, of leftist ideals by the party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

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