Tsipras needs to slow ambitious timetable

London

LESS than a month into its tenure, the Greek government is finding that it will be very difficult to fulfil electoral promises to rapidly change the country's economic management and its ties with its European partners.

The approach taken by Alexis Tsipras, Greece's new prime minister, and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has been bolstered by broad recognition that their nation is unlikely to regain economic dynamism and financial stability without a revision of its existing mix of austerity, structural reform and debt relief.