Greece makes IMF interest payment, but no cash-for-reforms deal yet

Athens

GREECE made a small interest payment to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, but European lenders dashed hopes for a cash-for-reforms deal before a more crucial, bigger instalment that Athens must pay next week.

Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's government sought to shift the blame on Tuesday onto the eurozone and IMF for a lack of agreement in the three-month-old negotiations, charging that each was setting different "red lines" on multiple issues from pension and labour reforms to the primary budget surplus.