Greece Remains Defiant as It Seeks Creditor Deal This Week
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Tsipras will address the standoff at the EU leaders’ meeting in Riga. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
Greece’s government said it won’t back down on election pledges to end austerity even while seeking to agree on a deal with creditors as soon as this week to unblock financing and avert a default.
“We’re striving for a mutually beneficial agreement by Friday,” Nikos Filis, spokesman for the parliamentary group of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party, said Sunday in comments broadcast on Mega TV. “Our mandate from the Greek people is to reach an agreement where we stay in the euro area without harsh austerity measures,” he said, adding that “tough negotiations” will take place before a summit meeting of European Union leaders in Riga, Latvia, on May 21-22…
Greece Remains Defiant as It Seeks Creditor Deal This Week
