What future for Greece under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras? Five years of belt-tightening got too much for many Greeks to bear. Result: they rallied to Syriza, the party that promised to end the destructive, humbling effects of austerity. <br /><br /> Europe’s most indebted country rattled financial markets with the prospect of Athens and Brussels locking horns over Greece’s economic future.<br /><br /> There’s been less surprise in European capitals than concern, in Berlin the most of all, where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has steadfastly championed European policy of structural reform and fiscal discipline. <br /><br /> The German Central Bank’s Jens Weidmann said Greece must honour pledges to creditors.<br /><br /> MP Klaus-Peter Willsch, in Merkel’s CDU party, threw down the gauntlet: <br /><br /> “My advice to the new Greek government would be to get out of the euro because the competitiveness of Greece is too poor to perform well in such a strong currency. Let’s see what they think about that.”<br /><br /> Athens’ first Hercu
