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News Summary: Young rebel hits Greek establishment

By The Associated Press
Published June 11, 2012 10:40pm ET
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News Summary: Young rebel hits Greek establishment
FILE This Tuesday, May 8, 2012 file photo shows Greek leader of Coalition of the Radical Left party, SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras lduring a meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, on taking the mandate to form a coalition government in Athens. The extreme left-wing Tsipras believes the budget-cutting imposed on Greece, which is suffering through its fifth year of recession and an unemployment rate nearly 22 percent, should be cancelled. Global financial markets are on tenterhooks over a possible victory by the tough-talking 37-year-old, who dresses casually and has a portrait of the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara on his office wall. His radical agenda scares even many Europeans who have railed against austerity. And if he's given the power to carry it out, Greece may soon find itself kicked out of the euro common currency. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis, pool) | Kostas Tsironis

WAY OF LIFE: Alexis Tsipras has fought Greece’s establishment since he led student protests during high school in the early 1990s. Now, he’s rattling Europe and the world with a pledge to tear up his country’s international bailout agreement.

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