Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

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The smiling-faced, open-necked new prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, backed an election winner in pledging to end austerity for a nation that is blighted by a chronic level of unemployment where almost a third of the working population are out of work. However, his new government’s immediate decision to halt the sale of a 67% stake in the port of Piraeus to suitors that included the Chinese state-owned COSCO Group, which already manages two of the ‘hub’ port’s cargo terminals, has ...