Tsipras government

The increasingly cash-strapped leftist Greek government on Tuesday conveyed its position for a comprehensive agreement with partners-cum creditors instead of a deal in installments.

The position was announced via the “non paper” avenue often preferred by the Tsipras government since it took office in late January 2015.

Talks, deliberations, meetings and contacts between Greece and its institutional lenders appeared to have picked this week in what’s being billed as a “final stretch” towards a deal – interim or final – to extend the former’s bailout financing.

At stake are 7.2 billion euros in bailout financing left over from the previous program, more-or-less in limbo for months now.

Crucial “Brussels Group” talks between Athens and its institutional lenders were underway abroad, while anxious radical leftist ministers were left in Athens, yet the question remained: where was Yanis over the weekend?

Former German FM Joschka Fischer, whose European leftist credentials are more-or-less without question, delves into the “could have”, “should have” debate swirling around Greece’s ruling SYRIZA party, given that the Greek government appears to have entered the “final stretch” in negotiations to clinch at least a bailout plan extension.

Main opposition leader Antonis Samaras shot back from Parliament's podium on Monday evening against the leftist SYRIZA government by charging that "you're not governing the country because your own (MPs) won't let you govern."

He spoke during an extraordinary party leaders' debate convened at the request of PM Alexis Tsipras, who spoke first in a nationally televised address.

Eurozone creditors wanted a list of reforms, leftist SYRIZA sent them a list of spending measures, and with revenue-generating targets touching on the surreal!

According to sources, the Tsipras government has "budgeted" additional revenue of 270 million euros from a receipts "lottery" ? a method used in several countries to fight tax evasion by shops and self-employed professionals.

Following Friday's downgrade of Greece's creditworthiness by Fitch, the German magazine Spiegel reports that "by freezing reforms a new hole totalling billions in Greece's budget is formed".

Furthermore, the German magazine maintains that the new leftist government will post a zero primary surplus in 2015.

George Soros stated that Greece’s chances of a Grexit are 50-50 and the country is on the verge of catastrophe.

“Greece is a lose-lose story and the best that could happen is that it could scrape by”, stated Soros on Bloomberg. “Greece is a long-term problem handled incorrectly by all sides since the start”.

German magazine “Spiegel”‘s recent issue is titled: “Fighting Corruption: Greek officials are inept”. The publication states that “Greece suffers from nepotism and corruption”.

Athens on Friday evening referred to a four-month deal to extend its loan agreement with eurozone creditors, a development that translates into a successful conclusion to the often acrimonious deliberations following the formation of a new Greek government on Jan. 26.