Different delivery, but one common message to Greece's new leaders

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IN Paris and Rome, it was sugar coated; in Berlin and Frankfurt, unequivocal. But the message from European capitals to Greece's new leaders was the same at every stop on last week's tour: stick to your commitments.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will head to his first European summit this Thursday duly warned that it will be near impossible - as Athens wants - to rip up pledges made during the country's four-year international bailout. Mr Tsipras and his aides were also advised to learn the ways of diplomatic custom.

"Friendship requires telling things as they are," French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told Reuter…