Greek prime minister's fine balancing act

Athens

FIRST it was for sale, then the deal was scrapped, then the sell-off was back on and now it is to be a joint venture, or maybe not.

Few issues sum up the confusion of leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's first two months in office better than the bewildering saga of the country's biggest port, Piraeus, a bastion of militant trade unionists. His government's first declaration in January was to say the asset sale - a key part of Greece's privatisation programme agreed with international creditors - had been cancelled.