EU toughens stance after Tsipras names government of radicals

A day after Alexis Tsipras became prime minister of Greece, the euro region hardened its rhetoric.

Germany and the Netherlands led warnings to the new anti-austerity Greek government about rolling back budget cuts meant to get spending under control. The two countries pressed Tsipras to endorse the fiscal tightening that underpins the €240 billion-euro aid program for Greece.

“Germany bears no responsibility for what happened in Greece,” Volker Kauder, the parliamentary caucus leader of ...