This weekend promises to be a fraught one for Greece, as the end of June deadline looms to repay nearly $2 billion to the International Monetary Fund. Eleventh hour negotiations resume Saturday between Greece and its European Union creditors. The IMF has been a key player in the fraught negotiations in Brussels, as the economist, Irwin Stelzer from the Hudson Institute in Washington, tells the BBC's Mike Johnson.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greets Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Christopher Cavoli before the North Atlantic Council meeting of defense ministers on February 13, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)