ECB raises pressure on Greece as Tsipras meets EU peers

By Renee Maltezou and John O'Donnell BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised pressure on Greece on Thursday to extend a bailout deal with its international creditors as new leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras told EU leaders austerity is killing his economy and they must find an alternative. After euro zone finance ministers failed to agree on a joint statement on the way forward on Greece's debt crisis, the ECB's Governing Council held a short-notice tel