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Greece’s Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras appealed to German taxpayers to help Greece grapple with economic and fiscal crisis.

Tsipras said that he is in Germany to press for a common solution to Greece, now in its fifth year of a deep economic recession. It is in Germany’s interest to change the policy of austerity, he said.

Tsipras said that he sought talks with Merkel as part of contacts “with all sides of the political spectrum.” No German ministers were planning to meet with Tsipras during his visit to Berlin, government spokesman Georg Streiter said yesterday.




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