Gabriel Sakellaridis

By Ben Sills and Eleni Chrepa

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reached out to Greece?s creditors, saying he?ll iron out the kinks in relations with the rest of the euro area days after his government lodged a complaint about the German finance minister.

A circulated “non paper” — by the government itself – in tandem with an official statement by government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis that a SYRIZA government will not “flip flop” on the debt issue attempted to allay scrutiny on Tuesday of an “about face” in terms of policy.

The “non paper” made the following points, in telegraph fashion:

As if the effects of the terrible economic crisis were not enough, as if the nightmarish rise of Greek fascism did not send enough warning signs to Europe, a new story from Greece of an entirely different nature, is expected to capture international attention. It has sex, politics, media and perhaps blackmail.