IMF’s ‘hard line’ among lenders behind Tsipras govt's latest ‘diplomatic offensive’

The IMF’s insistence on covering supplementary funds’ deficits exclusively from cuts in benefits and the thorny issue of non-performing loans in the country – now upwards of 80 billion euros – is reportedly behind the Greek government’s abrupt “diplomatic offensive” to achieve a first review of the Greek program and avoid any potential summertime credit asphyxiation.