Greece’s future remains as confused as ever, after Wednesday night’s crunch meeting in Brussels between prime minister Alexis Tsipras and EC president Jean-Claude Juncker ended without a deal.
After a four hours meeting, Tsipras emerged after midnight to announce that Greece couldn’t accept some of the proposals put together by its creditors. Instead he argued for acceptance of a 47-page reform program he handed his creditors this week.
“Our proposal continues to be the only realistic and constructive proposal. The discussions will continue”, Tsipras said on Twitter.
As soon as he arrives in Athens PM Tsipras will convene his inner circle to plot next move. It was made clear that he will not attend all session's of his party's constituent bodies but will be represented by Yannis Dragasakis, Euclid Tsakalotos and Gabriel Sakellaridis. The possibility that the prime minister may not attend the meetings of SYRIZA's Political Secretariat triggers speculation that the PM is likely to face serious opposition within his party.
Meanwhile government sources rule out the possibility that the PM will meet Jean-Claude Juncker again on Friday. According to these sources Tsipras might have yet another teleconference with French president François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in another attempt to break the deadlock.