Greek PM's seven-year war against central banker

The standoff between the leftist SYRIZA party and the governor of the Bank of Greece dates back to the very day that Yannis Stournaras was appointed finance minister under the coalition government of New Democracy's Antonis Samaras and PASOK's Evangelos Venizelos, on July 5, 2012.
Then in the opposition, Alexis Tsipras's party was often violently critical of Stournaras, who bore the onus of defending government policy in Parliament. The son of a communist, with a PhD from Oxford University, the economist has always stood as an "institutional barrier" to the plans of politicians who have emerged from the ranks of the communist student movement and believe that a different monetary model would be possible for Greece and the European Union in the future.
From June 10, 2014, when SYRIZA reacted to Stournaras's appointment as governor of the Bank of Greece, up until the recent...