The German press are looking at Ms Merkel's visit to Athens through lenses of different hues. Comments are varied, with most commentary on yesterday's Greek bond sale being positive.

Alexis Tsipras said that the exit to the markets was for “petty political and communicative reasons” and described it as the equivalent of “shooting one's self in the foot”.

Greece's first foray into bond markets after a four-year exclusion will be on a "trial and error" basis but the nation expects to fund itself unaided in 2016, Yiannis Stournaras told Reuters