Greece won't bow to 'politics of submission'

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.

In a speech to the Cabinet - his first since taking office - the 40-year-old premier insisted that Greece's new leaders were no longer willing to bow to the "politics of submission", in a clear swipe at Brussels and the International Monetary Fund.

"Our people are sufferin…