ATHENS — Greece intends to put forward new bailout proposals to its European partners at an emergency summit Tuesday, government sources here said, as officials sought to stave off a collapse of their country’s banking system and its potential ejection from the eurozone.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras huddled with leaders from across the political spectrum Monday morning and well into the afternoon to hash out a new bailout plan that they could support as a united front and that would be more palatable to international and European creditors.

Tsipras also spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the eurozone’s most powerful leader, by phone, and the two agreed he would present new bailout proposals to the leaders of the 19 nations that use the euro at a summit in Brussels on Tuesday evening, according to a Greek government official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

Tsipras’ long huddle with fellow politicians in Athens was matched by similar crisis meetings in other European capitals as officials scrambled to respond to the resounding rejection of previous bailout proposals by Greek voters in a snap referendum Sunday.

There were mixed signals over whether a deal could be struck quickly, with some German and other Northern European officials digging in their heels over what they deem to be Greek irresponsibility and officials from Southern European countries such as France and Italy sounding more conciliatory.

A fast agreement is necessary for the European Central Bank, or ECB, to keep propping up Greece’s ailing financial system, which has hemorrhaged billions of euros in the last few weeks. Without a deal, the ECB, based in Frankfurt, Germany, could conclude that Greece’s banks are insolvent and would then be obliged by its rules to cut off aid.

Without that lifeline, Greek banks would run out of cash within days, if not hours. Banks have been closed since last Monday, and Reuters reported that the Greek government, which had previously promised to open the banks Tuesday, would extend the closure for a few more days.

At a late Monday meeting of ECB officials in Frankfurt, Germany, the stewards of European finances decided against any change to the level of emergency cash infusions for Greek banks.

The ECB officials are likely waiting for a signal from the finance ministers after their Tuesday meeting to make any further liquidity infusions for the Greek banking system that is reportedly down to its last $555 million – or about $50 per person in the country of 11 million.


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