The Fragility of Hope in a Broken Greece

by Gáibhin McGranaghan, contributor “The verdict of the Greek people has rendered the Troika a thing of the past.” Newly elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was unequivocal in his acceptance speech on the Voulí’s steps, declaring that “the age of austerity” was over, his government determined to break the “vicious cycle of economic debt, and for