Instead, the government will put forward a bridging programme to last until June, as Tsipras said without his usual smile.

Tax evasion will be punished by confiscation of undeclared assets; politicians, journalists, government and bank officials, corporate directors, proxies in offshore companies, etc. will be asked to furnish evidence of their income

Greece’s Finance Minister, Yannis Varoufakis, is putting together a finalised proposal for debt management, which will be presented at the Eurogroup meeting on Wednesday; Varoufakis warned the European Union against turning into a new USSR