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Eurozone leaders decided at an emergency meeting earlier this week that Greece should have one more chance to present a credible rescue plan.

Greek officials said the leftist government broadly repeated a reform plan Tsipras sent to the euro zone last week before Greek voters, in a referendum on Sunday, overwhelmingly rejected the austerity terms previously on offer for a bailout.

His comment came on the heels of an observation by Nicolas Veron, a senior fellow at the independent think tank Bruegel in Brussels that if Greece’s current source of aid is “stopped and no agreement is in sight, it is hard to imagine a scenario in which Greece stays...

The measures include tax rises, pension reforms, privatisation and spending cuts, Greek media say.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will address the European Parliament on Wednesday after European leaders gave his debt-stricken country a final deadline to reach a new bailout deal and avoid crashing out of the euro.