Greece’s Tsipras says optimistic for ‘viable’ solution with EU

Report of a visit by the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the EU Institutions in Brussels on the 4 February 2014 to have meetings with respectively the Presidents of the European Council, European Commission and the European Parliament.

He said that that he believed it was possible to find a solution to the debt standoff between Athens and the EU.

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