Germany Govt: Too Early To Predict Decision On Aid For Greece

BERLIN (MNI) – There are still some “details to be cleared” before
Eurozone finance ministers can make a decision about the second aid
package for Greece on Monday, a German finance ministry spokesman said
Friday.

“I expect that we will have a foundation on Monday on which
[Eurozone] finance ministers will be able to make a joint decision,”
ministry spokesman Martin Kotthaus said. Yet, “it is still too early to
say how this decision will look like.”

German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said there was no rift
in the government on Greece. The whole government was determined to help
Greece return to stability, he said.

German economics ministry spokesman Holger Schlienkamp stressed
that a disorderly Greek default or an exit of Greece from the Eurozone
was not in Germany’s interest.

Kotthaus denied rumours that there exist plans for a hard default
of Greece.

–Berlin bureau: +49-30-22 62 05 80; email: twidder@marketnews.com

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