Economics

Greece's Coming Clash in Europe Starts With Russia Sanctions

Syriza party supporters at a pre-election rally at the Palais des Sports stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Jan. 20, 2015.
Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg

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By James G. Neuger and Nikos Chrysoloras

January 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM UTC

Updated on

January 28, 2015 at 7:25 AM UTC

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Greece’s new government questioned moves to impose more sanctions on Russia, adding a foreign-policy angle to its challenge to the status quo in Europe.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza-led coalition said it opposed a European Union statement issued in Brussels Tuesday paving the way to additional curbs on the Kremlin over the conflict in Ukraine, and complained it hadn’t been consulted.