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The Greek prime minister’s office is reporting that Alexis Tsipras has hit the phones in calls aimed squarely at putting across Greece’s desire for some sort of debt agreement at the next euro group meeting on June 15.

The prime minister Alexis Tsipras spoke yesterday with the German chancellor Angela Merkel and the French president Emmanuel Macron, and just a little while earlier he had a telephone discussion with European Council president Donald Tusk.

A statement released from Tsipras’s office says:

The prime minister conveyed the position of the Greek side of the need for a clear solution to the issue of Greek debt and everyone agreed they would continue to work ahead of the euro group on 15 June.”

When the going has got tough, Tsipras has often tried in the past to bypass creditor institutions by seeking a political solution at prime ministerial level .....