EU
officials and German politicians have vented their frustration at Greece, with
time running out for reaching a debt deal.
But
Germany's European Commissioner said if talks failed Greece would come under a
state of emergency. Without a cash-for-reforms debt deal with the EU and IMF,
Greece is expected to default on a €1.5bn (£1.1bn; $1.7bn) debt repayment to
the IMF due by the end of the month.
The Athens
government's bailout deal with the EU also runs out on 30 June and Mr Tsipras
has been trying to unlock the final €7.2bn instalment.
European
Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who is also a member of German Chancellor
Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU, said that on 1 July Greece would have to be
considered an "emergency area", affecting police salaries, medicines,
energy and other fields.
CDU figures
in Germany lined up to criticise Greece's position, with deputy party leader
Volker Bouffier condemning Greek demands as unrealistic and Julia Kloeckner
from the party executive accusing Mr Tsipras of overplaying his hand.
Even the
head of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany's coalition, Sigmar
Gabriel, who has been seen as more sympathetic to the Greek position, warned
the Athens government that time was running out. "Everywhere in Europe,
the sentiment is growing that enough is enough," he wrote in Bild
newspaper.
One
European Union official said the clock was already at five-past-midnight, and
although eurozone finance ministers were poised for last-ditch talks on
Thursday, "at this stage there's nothing to discuss".
European
Central Bank President Mario Draghi said emergency credit would continue to be
provided for Greek banks as long as they were "solvent and have sufficient
collateral", but he refused to say what might happen if Greece missed any
debt repayments.
(Πηγή: bbc.com)
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