Tsipras has already rejected the creditors' terms.
This, said the senior official, was payback for the emphatic no to the creditors' terms delivered by the snap referendum that Tsipras staged a week ago.
Such is the level of urgency, the German government on Thursday forwarded the text of the creditors' terms to the parliament in Berlin in preparation for Monday.
American investors shrugged off worries about Greece's financial woes Monday with stocks posting modest declines after Greek voters soundly rejected European creditors' terms for another bailout.
And the question he will put to the voters – whether they accept the creditors' terms for extending a bailout that is now set to finish five days before Sunday's vote – is arguably a nonsense.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who will chair next week's Luxembourg meeting, delivered an ultimatum to Athens, warning it would be left "alone" if it did not meet the creditors' terms for securing remaining bailout funds.
On Friday Tsipras robustly rejected the creditors' terms for extending the bailout until the end of November, bitterly accusing the Europeans and the International Monetary Fund of deliberately seeking to humiliate Greece.
News emerges that Eurogroup ministers will use some of their time together on Saturday to draw up plans for emergency measures to ringfence Greece's financial system unless Tsipras accepts creditors' terms for a five-month extension of the bailout.
Eurozone finance ministers and Greece's creditors are to draw up plans for emergency measures to ringfence the country's financial system unless the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, accepts the creditors' terms for a five-month extension of Athens's bailout on Saturday.
On the eve of crunch talks in Brussels, our main story tonight is that eurozone finance ministers and Greece's creditors are to draw up plans for emergency measures to ringfence the country's financial system unless the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, accepts the creditors' terms for a five-month extension of Athens's bailout on Saturday.
