EU's Juncker said to have refused request from PM Tsipras for phone conversation on Saturday after Athens deemed latest proposal from creditors as "absurd" - financial press
- Juncker: "Alexis Tsipras, my friend, had promised that by Thursday evening, he would present a second alternative proposal... I have never received this alternative proposal... Friendship, in order to be maintained, has to observe some minimum rules."
- Disappointed with Tsipras speech to Parliament; Creditors await alternative proposal from Athens.
- May meet with Tsipras on Wednesday if Greece presents new proposal.
- European Commission official: "President Juncker and Prime Minister Tsipras will certainly stay in contact in the coming days."
- Greek Fin MIn Varoufakia: Creditors requests were "borderline insulting... It was an aggressive move designed to terrorise the Greek government."
- France Fin Min Sapin: No agreement can be possible with Greece after the end of June.
- Grexit would not be financial catastrophe for eurozone.
- Follow-up: Hollande, Merkel, and Tsipras are holding a new round of Greek debt crisis talks.