Tsipras Offers Warnings, Bologna

Tsipras is visiting Italy to support the Italian ballot ticket of the radical left "The Other Europe with Tsipras." According to the Italian media, around 12,000 people were gathered in Bologna's central square Piazza Maggiore holding with the red flags of "L 'Altra Europa" (The Other Europe).

"To the clear dilemma of the ballot box: yes or no to austerity. To the clear wager of the elections: Which Europe? That of Democracy or that of Merkel? The only response that Ms Merkel is afraid of, the only response that the neo-liberal European incumbent is afraid of is the response of the European Left," Tsipras said.

The SYRIZA leader also called on voters not to abstain from the elections. "Because Europe is at a historical crossroad, we ask every citizen to vote and not stay at home on Sunday," the Party of the European Left candidate for the European Commission said.

Tsipras gave his speech in Piazza Maggiore in downtown Bologna, a historic square in the northern Italy, where historic leaders of the Italian Left, like Enrico Berlinguer, gave important speeches to the Workers' Union. At the end of his speech, Tsipras joined the crowd in an A capella version of "Bella Ciao".