Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, tabled new proposals last night in the hope of securing a deal by the middle of the week that would liberalise international trade in agriculture, manufactured goods and services.
It calls upon the Commission to table its new proposals for the consolidation of Community law and upon the Council to act as soon as possible.
The eurozone and the European commission said they will only negotiate if Greece tables serious new proposals on fiscal targets, including pensions reforms and liberalisation of the labour market.
He said Athens had made no credible counter-proposals on the bailout terms and said that Varoufakis tabled no new proposals on Thursday, despite the session of Eurogroup finance ministers being billed as the last chance to secure a deal sending Greece a financial lifeline and keeping it in the euro.
After a fortnight of non-stop brinkmanship at the highest level of EU leadership over how to resolve the impasse over Greece's financial rescue, the leftwing Syriza government of the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, tabled surprise new proposals on Tuesday, demanding that the bailout be rolled over into a new two-year programme worth almost €30bn to Greece to be spent on servicing debt.
But with the relationship between Greece and its partners at its lowest ebb since Tsipras became prime minister five months ago, the eurozone and the commission said they will only negotiate if Greece tables serious new proposals on fiscal targets, including pensions reforms and liberalisation of the labour market.
When the Clinton administration's special envoy on war crimes wrapped up his last negotiating session on the formation of an International Criminal Court last week, he left on the table a new proposal intended to assuage fears of Americans opposed to the court.
Member states will now have to table a new proposal for early next year but access to the EU's 2010 budget is now closed.
They called on the Commission to table a new proposal.
They call on the Commission to table a new proposal.
The committee undertook to table a new proposal before the end of 2015 to establish a durable and transparent system for allocating seats among EU member states "in an objective manner", before each European election.
