NEW Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has sworn to “stick fully” to his election promises as parliament prepares to debate his policies and vote on a confidence motion tomorrow.

He set his government on a collision course with creditors on Sunday night, proclaiming an end to the era of austerity and “five years of bailout barbarity.”

The policy statement that will be debated included all the promises made by his left-wing party Syriza before last month’s election.

The government “has taken the irrevocable decision to stick fully to its pre-election commitments,” said an uncompromising Mr Tsipras.

Mr Tsipras will be faced with an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Wednesday, a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday and another eurozone finance ministers’ meeting next Monday.

He has already demanded a “bridge agreement” to give Greece and its creditors time to negotiate a new deal by June that would be more favourable to Greece.

But this approach got short shrift from EU member states in meetings with Mr Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis last week.

“If our partners are willing, we can agree tomorrow morning,” Mr Tsipras said.

This would mean the rest of the EU abandoning its declared policies and accepting Syriza’s demands.

Mr Tsipras insisted that the debt deal imposed by the troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank had “been abolished by popular mandate.”

Austerity policies imposed by previous neoliberal governments shrank Greece’s economy by a quarter and resulted in a record joblessness level of 25 per cent.

The PM insisted that the EU must return to its founding principles of solidarity, social cohesion, growth and democracy.

“We declare categorically that we will not negotiate our history. We will not negotiate this people’s pride and dignity,” he concluded.

The current agreement runs until the end of this month, but Mr Tsipras blasted the previous government for rejecting an EU proposal to extend the deal to June so that a Syriza-led government would face tight deadlines.

“They burned the crops and blew up the bridges,” he said of the previous coalition government.