Early signs of a compromise have faded and the ‘Grexit’ is popping up once again in European political discourse.

SYRIZA scored a bigger victory than most anticipated in elections over the weekend, and now all eyes are on prime minister candidate Alexis Tsipras as he attempts to strike a balance between Berlin and an irate Greek electorate.

The election on January 25 is only the beginning of Greece’s problems; voters are not prepared to grant to any one party the power to implement policies that will satisfy the people at home and creditors abroad.

Greek voters are being asked to choose between austerity and stimulus, and the whole world is watching.

Examining some of the defining political, economic, and military trends to look out for in Europe in 2014.

Examining the state of the Greek political landscape after years of austerity and protest, with no end in sight.

The Greek people have spoken, though it came out sounding like a Sphinx: they wish to remain in the euro zone but refuse to forfeit the sovereignty necessary to do so.

In one reckless decision that will reverberate for generations, Greek Prime Minister Papandreou has doomed the European Union by exposing it to a potentially lethal dose of poisonous democracy.

As the Greek Debt Crisis drags on with no end in sight, it is becoming harder and harder to skirt around one wholly uncomfortable though increasingly unavoidable question: Who is all this bailing out and austerity really for- the Greek people, or the European banks that financed their government?

Global markets stand on the precipice of another plunge into the now familiar territory of red and recession, though this time there won’t be the prospect of government stimulus spending to soften the blow.