Greek leader: no compromise, but bailout deal possible
By Associated Press
Feb 17, 2015 9:40 AM CST
Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, center, greets Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, left, as Croatian Finance Minister Boris Lalovac looks on during a meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Greek shares led a European retreat...   (Associated Press)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says his government will not compromise on the country's tense bailout negotiations, but that it is working for an "honest and mutually beneficial agreement."

Tsipras' defiant tone Tuesday came a day after a collapse in negotiations between Greece and the rest of the 19-nation eurozone in Brussels over the new government's attempt to renegotiate its international bailout.

Greece's eurozone partners have given the country until Friday to ask for an extension to the European part of the current bailout, which expires on Feb. 28. But Athens insists it cannot ask for the extension of a program that it considers to be wrong.

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