Greek PM urges creditors to get 'realistic'

Athens will stand its ground until its creditors become "realistic", Greece's premier said Monday, a day after last-ditch debt talks collapsed and raised fears of a Greek default and exit from the eurozone. "We will wait patiently until the institutions become more realistic," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wrote in the Ephimarida ton Syndakton daily, adding that "political opportunism" was driving the creditors to keep pressing Athens to make cuts to pensions.