SYRIZA: Samaras presented 'pitiful picture' after meeting with Merkel
Main opposition SYRIZA attacked on Tuesday Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in an announcement, saying he had presented a "pitiful picture" after his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, "embarrassing himself and the country."
According to a SYRIZA, Samaras had not questioned the memorandum programmes in the slightest but made it clear that "the term 'negotiation' is foreign to his policy and his intentions." There was a huge distance between Samaras and the current "painful social reality" in Greece, SYRIZA added.
The party also commented on the prime minister's refusal to reply, at Merkel's suggestion, whether he was against relaxing austerity and said this made him the German chancellor's most fervent supporter in Europe.
"No handshake with any foreign leader can save him," the announcement concluded.
