Greek PM makes first state visit to Germany amid debt crisis

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Alexis Tsipras met with Angela Merkel in Berlin for his first state visit to Germany. They’ve been at loggerheads over a multi-billion euro bailout deal for months. CCTV’s Guy Henderson filed this report from Berlin.

Greek PM makes first state visit to Germany amid debt crisis

Alexis Tsipras met with Angela Merkel in Berlin for his first state visit to Germany. They've been at loggerheads over a multi-billion euro bailout deal for months. CCTV's Guy Henderson filed this report from Berlin.

Highlights:

  • When Mr. Tsipras’ finance minister came to Berlin in February, Yanis Varoufakis couldn’t even agree to disagree with his German counterpart.
  • Still no detailed agreement has come about and Athens may be weeks away from default.