You should really pay attention to Greece this week
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Even if SYRIZA wins outright, many believe it could find a compromise with the EU, not least because any government will need European help to pay the bills. Both sides have an interest in avoiding the nuclear scenario," said a recent paper by Christian Odendahl and Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank.
"The rest of the euro-zone will have to appear tough in order not to set a precedent for populist parties elsewhere, but it has little interest in precipitating a collapse of Greece’s banking sector. For its part, SYRIZA would have little choice but to try and find an agreement," they wrote. "It will face a €6 billion-12 billion ($7 billion-14 billion) funding gap in 2015."
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