Economics
Tsipras Turns to Party Hand Tsakalotos to End Talks Impasse
Greece’s Tsipras Awaits Europe’s Final Bailout Offer
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras heads into talks to break a stalemate over a financial lifeline in Brussels on Wednesday surrounded by trusted party hands, chief among them Euclid Tsakalotos.
The Oxford-educated economist and Greek deputy foreign minister was asked in April to step into the shoes of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in day-to-day debt negotiations as Tsipras moved to defuse the acrimony building up with creditors.