Greece’s new prime minister Alexis Tsipras held talks with EU officials on Wednesday as he continues his campaign to renegotiate his country’s debt payments.<br /><br />The 40-year-old former communist was in Brussels as he seeks new terms for Athens’ 240-billion-euro bailout.<br /><br />“I am very optimist that we will try to do our best in order to find the common viable and mutually acceptable solution for our common future,” said Tsipras. <br /><br />“I know very well that the history of the EU is a history of disagreements but at the end of the day of compromises, of agreements.”<br /><br />But the hardest task of all will be to win over Germany, where both the government and the public alike are sceptical of Mr. Tspiras’s campaign promises.<br /><br />His new left-wing government says it will roll back some of the austerity policies agreed with international lenders.<br /><br />The Reuters news agency reported that Athens must not cancel any of the cutbacks and reforms made so far in a bid to regain market trust and stabilise its public f
