Leader: Useful for Tsipras to meet the EU’s elected representatives – Dagens Industri

Then came a long list of demands from liberal: Reduce the public sector, let the banks be private for real, and stop the privileges for ship owners, the military, the Orthodox Church, the islands and the political parties (“daily get new loans from public banks “).

Alexis Tsipras saw squeezed out, and the question is if he listened to Mr Verhofstadt clearest message that linked to the Greek Government the strongest popular mandate in Greek history, not least for this weekend’s referendum:

“How do you to be remembered? As a failed prime minister who made the people poorer, or as a truly revolutionary reformists in the tradition of Spyridon Trikoupis and Eleutherios Venizelos? “Asked Guy Verhofstadt, referring to two prestigious Greek statesmen in history.

When he and Manfred Weber spoke were heard constant protestrop – and the corresponding shouts of joy when Alexis Tsipras spoke. It came from an unholy alliance of British UKIP, the French Front National, Spanish Podemos, the Sweden Democrats and some parties to.

How to get when politicians can follow its own meaning, just as it is in the European Parliament. When Alexis Tsipras meets the other prime ministers, he certainly criticized even there, but it is similar enough more negotiation attempts than impassioned.

It was enough useful for the Greek leader to experience the massive criticism yesterday. And to realize that those who applaud his smoke screens are the most extreme European forces on the left and the right.

Now it Greek government submitted an application for assistance from the EU crisis fund ESM and promised to present new reforms ahead of an extraordinary summit. All 28 Heads of State and Government, also Stefan Löfven, are invited to Brussels on Sunday.

The summit chairman, the Pole Donald Tusk, said that this is the very last deadline and that it “Perhaps the most crucial position in the EU and the euro zone’s history.” This time it is not an exaggeration. Greek banks remain closed during the weekend. If and when they are open and what then happened to the money in deposit accounts, nobody knows today.

The severity and anger must be expressed even in the parliamentary context. President Martin Schulz, the German Social Democrat, must also express their opinion (if that Greece should tvångsförvaltas), although he was criticized by the Greeks he spoke. Greek crisis is namely not a fight between the two camps. It is about the Union’s legitimate right to demand the cooperation to work according to the rules that have been there.

The harsh words had its place in the debate yesterday. But negotiators must now work methodically and diplomatically in order to reach an agreement that can not only accepted but also implemented.

If they do not European cooperation received the first blow of the splitting wedge.