Citing unnamed German chancellory sources, Bloomberg reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel is not likely to agree to a meeting with Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras at the European Union summit next week, as she wants to avoid being drawn into a direct confrontation with him.

According to the anonymous official who spoke to the financial news agency, Merkel’s goal is to make Tsipras realize that he is isolated in Europe. The German Chancellor “sees little room for maneuver to provide further support for Greece and is skeptical about Tsipras’ claims that he can raise revenue by cutting corruption and increasing taxes on the rich,” the agency’s source was quoted as saying.

Although the Greek premier is scheduled to meet with several government officials in Rome, Paris and Brussels before the critical summit, he is not scheduled to see Merkel, Bloomberg says. In fact, the news service makes specific reference to Tsipras’ first symbolic act as Prime Minister, which was paying tribute to the victims of Nazi occupation (1941-44) of Greece. Tsipras laid a wreath at the east Athens Kesariani shooting range, which today hosts a World War II monument, immediately after his swearing in ceremony.

Although considered by most local political pundits as a symbolic gesture aimed to demonize the third-place showing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in the recent election, Bloomberg chose to portray the visit as evidence of a tense relationship between the new Greek and the Merkel government.

On her part, Merkel said in an interview with Hamburger Abendblatt that “Europe will continue to show solidarity with Greece, as well as other countries particularly affected by the crisis, if these countries undertake their own reforms and savings efforts.”