Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet the country’s creditors ahead of today’s emergency eurozone summit in Brussels.<br /><br /> On Sunday he made a new offer on a reforms package in an 11th hour bid to prevent a default on a €1.6bn IMF loan.<br /><br /> Although refusing to be drawn on exactly what the new proposals are , Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis did say he was optimistic that a deal will be reached. Brussels is quoted as saying the new propositions “are a good basis”.<br /><br /> Elected on a pledge to end austerity, both men have defiantly resisted demands to cut pension spending however they may now be willing to concede raising VAT.<br /><br /> On Sunday evening thousands of demonstrators gathered in Athens in support of its left-wing government.<br /><br /> They want an end to measures imposed by Greece’s lenders in two previous bailouts, which have left one in four Greeks unemployed.<br /><br /> If a deal is finally reached it will have to be one which is acceptable to Tsipras’s Syriza party or else he may b
