No podemos

Ni nunca. Which is probably just what the EU feared Podemos had in mind  if they'd caved in to Greece (rather than it happening the other way around);

Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos distanced itself Tuesday from its ally SYRIZA, which governs Greece, after eurozone creditors forced Athens to accept a tough deal to fix its debts.

Spain has an election coming up, and Podemos doesn't want the Spanish voters to think they'll get the same treatment from Brussels.

"Spain is not Greece," said Podemos’s head of economic policy, Nacho Alvarez -- echoing the line used by Spain’s conservative government to reassure voters.

"Greece and Spain are different economies in very different situations which demand different economic strategies," he told a news conference.

But there's one way for Spain to find out.