Different delivery, but one common message to Greece's new leaders
Positions taken this past week raise pressure on Tsipras to abandon rhetoric that got him elected PM
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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.
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