Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, strongly rebuked Alexis Tsipras for his strident dismissal of a new bailout offer from Greece’s creditors and suggested the prime minister had misled his MPs about the nature of the closed-door negotiations.  In his first remarks since Mr Tsipras used an address to the Greek parliament on Friday to reject economic reform measures presented by Mr Juncker on behalf of Greece’s creditors as “absurd”, the commission president confirmed he had turned away a request by the Greek leader to renew negotiations over the weekend and warned Athens that time was running out.

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