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Greece has not managed to reach a deal with its creditors at the latest Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg, the European Commission’s Valdes Dombrovskis said in a tweet on Thursday.

After four hours of deliberations, Greece and its creditors continued their stalemate over whether Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government can take the steps needed to unlock aid. Creditors said Greece needs to keep to the terms of its bailout agreement, a deal that Tsipras has so far rejected.

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“No deal at #eurogroup. Strong signal for #Greece to engage seriously in negotiations,” Dombrovskis said on Twitter, adding that the group “stands ready to reconvene at any moment.”

Eurozone finance ministers were meeting in Luxembourg for a session that had been billed as the final chance to reach a cash-for-reform deal.

Greece owes the International Monetary Fund 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) by the end of June. It has not been able to reach a deal for austerity measures and pension reform that would satisfy creditors.

Earlier in the day, German newspaper Die Zeit reported on possible concessions made to Greece by international creditors, but EU diplomats told Reuters that the story has “nothing to do with reality.”

With files from Reuters, Bloomberg

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