No Tsipras-Merkel meeting is scheduled on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, although the Greek PM will meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Europarliament President Martin Schulz.

Alexis Tsipras will also have separate contacts with his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel, followed by talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Petro Poroshenko, and finally, a meeting with Latvian PM Laimdota Straujuma.