Facing a new “deadline” (doomsday is now set for Sunday) to submit a viable proposal to EU creditors, Alexis Tsipras addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
The embattled Greek PM once again called for debt relief (something Angela Merkel roundly rejected yesterday despite the IMF’s contention that writedowns are a precondition for “sustainability”) and claimed that Greece was being used as a “laboratory for testing austerity.”