When the far-left Syriza party won the Greek election last month, the hope was that the new prime minister, Alexis Isipras, would moderate his demands so as to compromise with his country's creditors. After all, he (like the vast majority of Greeks) wants to stay in the single currency. But even as he prepared to meet fellow European Union leaders for the first time this week, he was making a Greek exit from the euro ever more likely.
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