Alt. Shipping Minister Thodoris Dritsas told private SKAI TV on Thursday that “everything is still in the air” concerning an agreement between Greece and its international creditors.

“If our partners want complete surrender, they will not have it,” he said on Thursday.“If Europe is mad, then the Greek people can decide and the government will rely on the Greek society.” He left open the possibility of early elections, adding that discussions in Brussels were “below expectations”.

“There are no reforms for the production of wealth in the creditors’ proposals,” he said, while adding: “I still consider the Piraeus Port Organisation (OLP) privatization a big mistake.”

Dritsas called the Greek proposal a “compromise, which keeps open all possibilities so that Greece can have a next day.” Dritsas says that Greece cannot back down from the realistic plan it has created.