PM Tsipras declares war at home on Greece's 'oligarchs'

International attention on Greece since the Syriza party took over has focused on the leftist government's fight against an austerity package imposed from abroad. Speaking to parliament last week, Nikoloudis denounced an elite that included a "handful of families who think that the state and public service exists to service their own interests." Such businessmen influence politicians and state officials or abuse their control of the media to unfairly win state contracts, change re