But it also reflects a tardiness in implementing the austerity demanded by the Treasury in London.
The continuing austerity demands from Mr Samaras's government have stoked further popular resentment.
The intention to belie the austerity demanded by the cannon seems clear.
Runaway inflation and the austerity demanded by the fund have cut real wages and increased unemployment.
But the precondition for these reforms is not the austerity demanded by the agreement but economic revival.
But bold gestures like these go down well in Greece, where Berlin is regularly demonised for its austerity demands.
Yet it is understood that they are sprucing up their offer, slimming down their austerity demands, and relaxing debt repayments.
But main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is among those warning that continued austerity demands on Greece will shrink the economy further.
Third, a softening of austerity demands on the periphery — not zero austerity, but less, so that the human costs would be less.
It was only after Argentina turned its back on these austerity demands, and defaulted on its debt, that it began to recover.
Should such leaders emerge, their first responsibility would be to lead a credible challenge to the dead-end austerity demands of Italy's European partners.
