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PM Tsipras to meet with Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday

PM Tsipras to meet with Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet on Wednesday (04/02) in Brussels with the president of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker.

On Monday, Tsipras will visit Cyprus, on Tuesday he will be in Rome, on Wednesday in Brussels and Paris to meet with EC president and French President Francois Hollande respectively.

Yesterday, (Saturday) Tsipras had a phone contact with ECB chief Mario Draghi with whom he discussed the latest developments. According to government's sources, the two top officials expressed their will a mutually accepted solution to be found.

Later on Saturday, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem called Prime Minister Tsipras and told him that there was a misunderstanding during the joint press conference with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis adding that he does not wish to be created the sense that the negotiation will not continue.

Finally, late at night and after his meeting in Strasbourg with the French President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European parliament president Martin Schultz called Alexis Tsipras and briefed him on what they discussed clarifying that there was no negative reference over Greece.