Greece offers concessions in talks with lenders
To avert national bankruptcy, PM Tsipras's team makes compromises to enable fresh aid of 750m euro to meet IMF payment on May 12
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GREECE'S leftist government on Thursday offered its biggest concessions so far in a race to remove roadblocks in crunch talks with lenders on a cash-for-reforms package.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's three-month-old government is under growing pressure at home and abroad to reach an agreement with European and IMF lenders to avert a national bankruptcy. A new poll showed over three-quarters of Greeks feel Athens must strike a deal at any cost to stay in the euro.
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