Greece says to restart talks in Brussels, submit counter-proposals

Greece's government is ready to submit counter-proposals to bridge differences with its creditors and will restart negotiations in Brussels on Saturday, a government official said on Friday. The comments came after the IMF withdrew its team of experts from talks in Brussels on Thursday over a failure to break a stalemate in talks for a cash-for-reforms deal. "The Greek government believes we are closer than ever to a deal because we are only 0.25 percentage points apart on the primary surplus ta