In several European capitals, thousands of protesters allied in solidarity with Greece on Saturday ahead of an emergency summit of eurozone leaders next week.

Demonstrators in Paris stood behind a banner which read “austerity kills, democracy is dying”, while supporters in Berlin turned out on the streets, rallied by leftist organisations and the Green party.

Several rounds of talks over Greece’s debt crisis broke down last week without agreement, so ministers of the 19-nation bloc will meet again in Brussels on Monday.

In a last-ditch bid to buy extra time, Greece announced it would present breakthrough proposals to its lenders to end a deadlock

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called an urgent cabinet meeting on Sunday about whether to put election promises, like austerity reduction, to one side to avoid Greece defaulting on its debts.

But with tensions at fever pitch, finance minister Yanis Varoufakis put the ball in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s court, demanding that