Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he aims to disconnect “the international lifeline that has kept Greece afloat since 2010 by forgoing disbursements of emergency loans scheduled over the next two years,” Bloomberg reports today.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to participate in events organized by the Azeri government for the Shah Deniz deposit.

When Prime Minister Antonis Samaras meets with Angela Merkel next week, it is expected that he will ask the German chancellor to lend a helping hand to his coalition government.