Greece's deputy prime minister accused EU-IMF creditors of preventing his radical government from doing its job, while admitting that his country is being strangled by a cash shortage.
"They are not letting us govern," Ioannis Dragasakis told Alpha TV late on Wednesday, hours before European leaders were to hold talks with Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over the looming cash crunch. Tsipras is seeking to renegotiate the terms of Greece's 240-billion-euro ($255-billion) international bailout, but several EU members including powerful Germany are adamant that Athens stand by its commitments to its creditors.
With no deal in sight, the creditors have withheld billions of euros in promised loans. "We have a liquidity problem," Dragasakis said in the interview.
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