Eurozone leaders make plans to pull back from the brink

Short term financing and a longer term programme with widespread changes to the Greek economy were on the table last night but EU leaders gave Greece a final deadline of Sunday to submit detailed plans.

There were some initial surprises when the new finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos, failed to produce the document fellow finance ministers were expecting to spend a few hours discussing.

There were various reports including one that was denied by a spokesperson for the president of the eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, that he advised Mr Tsakalotos to rework the proposals when he had sight of them before the meeting.