Opa! A street party by dozens of previously fired, and now rehired cleaners attached to Greece’s finance ministry took place outside the building in central Athens on Monday night.

Music, dance, drink and high spirits were in order after the radical leftist SYRIZA government made good on its campaign promise to rehire the 595 cleaning ladies. SYRIZA also promised to reopen, in its previous form, the state broadcaster (ERT), as well as rehiring school guards, contract teachers etc.

Earlier in day, a handful of SYRIZA ministers dropped by for the obligatory “photo-op”, with FinMin Yanis Varoufakis – in Brussels – even issuing a statement praising their “anti-austerity struggle”.

The public sector’s cleaning ladies are the easy part, though, now comes the “harder” part: creating new jobs for the millions of private sector unemployed and boosting the economic prospects of SMEs…