Greece’s Tsipras Warns Bell May Toll for Europe
ByGreece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a Syriza party meeting in Athens, May 23. Photographer: Yorgos Karahalis/AP Photo
Greece and its creditors blamed each other over the weekend for the lack of progress needed to unlock more aid as payments loom and patience wears thin.
As another of the government’s self-imposed deadlines for securing a deal slipped away, disagreements between the two sides on budget targets persisted, a person familiar with the matter said. Greece must make four payments totaling almost 1.6 billion euros ($1.78 billion) to the International Monetary Fund this month and its bailout package backed by the euro region expires at the end of June…