The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said the “strange attitude” of creditors can mean one of two things, “or who do not want an agreement or are serve specific interests in Greece “.
Alexis Tsipras already arrived in Brussels to meet with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
(Reuters) .- International creditors demanded on Wednesday that Greece improve its recent proposals on tax increases and reforms in a last-minute attempt to reach an agreement to unblock funding and avoiding a debt default next week.
Sources close to the negotiations said that lenders presented counterproposals to Athens to overcome their differences before finance ministers the Eurozone meet at 1700 GMT to try to approve an agreement.
Minister of Economy Greece, George Stathakis, said that only three of the 50 proposals of Athens are still in dispute.
The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, described the position of “certain” creditors as “strange” after they rejected the proposals made by Athens to close a budget gap, a government official said today.
Tsipras made the comments before going to Brussels meet with the heads of three creditor institutions of Greece -the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the official said in a statement.
He did not say what proposals referred Tsipras or which of the three institutions was attributed stagnation.
“The non-acceptance of the compensation measures has never happened before. Or Ireland or Portugal. Nowhere! “Tsipras said. “This strange attitude can only mean one of two things: either they do not want an agreement or are serving specific interests in Greece.” He said
Tsipras already arrived in Brussels and is expected to meet President the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the heads of the IMF , the European Central Bank, the Eurogroup of finance ministers and rescue fund for the euro zone to try to advance on the outstanding issues.
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