Tsipras far from forming government on his own, writes German newspaper Bild.

The national currency is not an end in itself, but "if we must clash with the eurozone, we will do it," Popular Unity (LAE) parliamentary group spokesman Dimitris Stratoulis said in statements to private MEGA TV on Monday.

New Democracy (ND) leader Evangelos Meimarakis on Monday returned the mandate to form a government to the President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos.