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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A robot from AgiBot is seen during the Global Developer Conference, organized by the Shanghai AI Industry Association, in Shanghai on February 21, 2025. (Hector Retamal via Getty Images)