Greece won't bow to 'politics of submission'
New PM wants "viable, mutually beneficial solution" with creditors, even as he halts privatisation of main port
Athens
GREECE'S radical new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras warned on Wednesday that it would no longer blindly submit to the EU and demanded a "fair" deal with its creditors.
Mr Tsipras said that he wanted a "viable, mutually beneficial solution" to the "humanitarian disaster" that he claimed his country has suffered as a result of the austerity imposed by it creditors.
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