Juncker warns Greece not to quit euro zone: paper

Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Greeks not to turn their backs on the euro, saying in a newspaper interview that a win by anti-bailout radical leftists in a vote on Sunday would have "unforeseeable" ...

Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras who resigned in the wake of his cave-in to the troika is back in office following Sunday's snap elections.The election was supposed to be extremely close, but it wasn't. Greek polls are notoriously unreliable. Tsipras won his first election by a huge vote even though polls were close. On Sunday the result was the same.Pollsters had New Democracy running neck-and-neck but in a low turnout Syriza received 35.5 per cent of the vote to 28 percent for New Democracy.

Athens (AFP) - With Greece's snap elections on Sunday, the top two parties are neck and neck in the polls. Analysts say a full return to power for the leftist Syriza party, while still possible, is unlikely.Following are three next-day scenarios:  

Berlin (AFP) - Germany's finance minister warned Greece that any new government must respect commitments made by its predecessor, as the country moved closer to early elections that EU officials fear would be won by a radical leftist party.

Athens (AFP) - Greece's snap election next weekend will be a cliffhanger, with latest opinion polls Sunday giving the radical left Syriza party only a razor-thin lead over its conservative rivals.

Der Spiegel has published an inane article about Europe's 10 Most Dangerous Politicians. Top 10 List

The question of the day, to which we all know the answer (but I want to ask the question anyway), Are the Nannycrats Afraid of Democracy? Here is a comment someone posted on the Guardian Greek Election Blog

ATHENS: Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras got a rock-star welcome at an Athens rally Friday as he sought to revive support for a "No" vote in a referendum called to strengthen his hand in talks with international creditors. His typically charismatic turn on the stage came as the most recent polls suggested Sunday's plebiscite on Greece's latest bailout offer was too close to call, with the EU nation of 11 million people evenly divided.