According to the newspaper, participants of the latest round of Greece talks unanimously described the meeting as “shocking.” The sources told the paper that Greek representative Nikos Theocharakis kept asking about the money “like a taxi driver” and warned that Greece would be soon bankrupt.
Greece's total debt to the troika of international creditors comprising the European Union, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amounts to about $270 billion.
Greek leftist government elected in late January managed to negotiate an extension of the bailout deal into late June 2015. However, the EU countries indicated that Athens had to propose a detailed list of reforms with some of them enacted into law to unlock next aid package.