Germany: 'New Talks Difficult To Imagine'

Germany's deputy chancellor has said new negotiations with Greece are "difficult to imagine" after the No vote in the referendum.

Sigmar Gabriel told the Tagesspiegel newspaper: "With the rejection of the rules of the eurozone ... negotiations about a programme worth billions are barely conceivable."

He said Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza government were "leading the Greek people on a path of bitter abandonment and hopelessness".

And he said Mr Tsipras had "torn down the last bridges on which Greece and Europe could have moved towards a compromise".

Mr Gabriel's Social Democratic Party shares power with German chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.

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