Eurozone officials have expressed optimism that Greece can strike a deal with the region’s heads of government at an emergency summit on Monday evening after Athens submitted fresh proposals to bailout creditors to secure €7.2bn in desperately-needed rescue funds.  Pierre Moscovici, the EU economic commissioner, told Europe1 radio on Monday, that the new ideas from Alexis Tsipras’s government “are going in the right direction”.  “The fate of Greece is at stake for a large part today,” he said. “I believe in an agreement.”  Late on Sunday, Martin Selmayr, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief of staff, tweeted that the new Greek submission was a “good basis for progress at tomorrow’s Euro Summit”.

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