Events of 2015 back in the limelight

The events of early 2015, when SYRIZA was negotiating austerity terms with Greece's creditors, stole the limelight again yesterday in Parliament, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressing the need for a public discussion on what exactly happened in the first half of 2015 when SYRIZA came to power and negotiated Greece's bailout.

"Maybe it's time the discussion on what happened in 2015 took place," Mitsotakis said, referring to the first six months of 2015 when the leftist party was in power under Alexis Tsipras. 

His remarks were prompted by the claim earlier in the session by Yanis Varoufakis, leader of the MeRA25 party and the country's finance minister at the time, that Tsipras had tried to strike a deal with creditors to secure favorable terms regarding labor issues in exchange for Greece achieving higher budgetary surplus targets. 

Indeed,...