A quip by EU
council president Donald Tusk that “the game is over” was met by
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’ response that “1.5 million unemployed,
three million poor and thousands of families without income, living
only with grandparents’ pensions, is not a game.
The quote
widely circulated by Greek media, at least, has Tsipras warning
partners “not to underestimate where a people can reach when it
feels humiliated.”
The
exchange, reportedly made at Thursday evening’s Euro summit, came
after the end of another fruitless Eurogroup on the “Greek issue”
— the latest in a long line of inconclusive meetings since late
February.
Tsipras
reportedly maintained that his side has tabled realistic proposals,
in contrast to “proposals by the institutions, which unfortunately,
reflect the most extreme positions expressed by the IMF.”
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