A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Putinism. It seems wherever one looks these days, whether it is Europe’s far-right parties or its struggling governments in the periphery, people can see signs of Muscovite influence over the proceedings. So Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s trip to the Kremlin this week was bound to crank up the rumour mill once more. Could Moscow be preparing a deal that would see Greece’s troubled government given loans in exchange for state-owned assets? Might Vladimir Putin be able to prize apart Europe’s unified front against Russian actions in Ukraine that have seen harsh …read more
Source: Business Insider
