The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his certainty that a deal would be reached during the June 15 EuroGroup meeting in a joint press conference with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos, during the latter’s official visit to Germany.

In a interview to Austrian newspapers Salzburger Nachrichten and Ober Nachrichten the President of the EuroGroup Working Group, Thomas Wieser labeled the IMF’s proposal for a radical reduction of the Greek debt ridiculous.

New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at a meeting of the party’s senior executives.