Tsipras: Bank closures ‘will not last long’

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Greeks the problems they face because of closed banks «will not last long», saying he expected to clinch a new aid deal with creditors 48 hours after a Sunday referendum.

Tsipras told ANT1 television that scenes in Greece – queues at cash machines and a crush of elderly Greeks waiting hours for pensions – were «embarrassing», but he blamed Greece’s euro zone partners that forced the European Central Bank to freeze vital funding to the banks.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald